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cory doctorow
aim
telescopes
through
each
other’s
windows,
because
only
creeps do that.
But we need to reclaim the right to record our own lives as they
proceed. We need to reverse decisions like the one that allowed
the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority to line subway plat-
forms with terrorism cameras, but said riders may not take snap-
shots in the station. We need to win back the right to photograph
our human heritage in museums and galleries, and we need to
beat back the snitch-cams rent-a-cops use to make our cameras
stay in our pockets.
They’re our cities and our institutions. And we choose the
future we want to live in.
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