RE: [Leica] Perhaps more reason to avoid ebay

["Clive Moss" <chmphoto@sbcglobal.net>]

Exactly. I have always been a tad amused by the strongly held views that
that our (our = photographers -- amateur or professional alike) right to
photograph and publish (in a not for profit mode, of course) is sacrosanct,
whereas we have an inalienable right to privacy about we ourselves do. It is
my right to photograph anything I think worth photographing. It is equally
my right not to be photographed or recorded in any action I take. Hmmm.

On the ebay topic -- why I should think that something I bought or sold in a
public auction should be a private matter is incomprehensible to me. (So is
the previous sentence, but I cannot think how to say it better.)

"a long, long time ago" = at least 5000 years.
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Clive
http://clive.moss.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us 
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of 
> Slobodan Dimitrov
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:55 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Perhaps more reason to avoid ebay
> 
> 
> At this point worrying about so-called privacy is really an idle
> exercise of hand wringing. That horse left the barn a long, long time
> ago. If any, and I mean any, governmental body, agency, etc., starts
> taking an interest in your activities, there is nothing on this earth
> that can stop that. Every iota of one's life is turned up side down,
> willingly or unwillingly. 
> If anything, ebay, is articulating an acquiescence that has 
> been with us
> since the days of the cold war, and earlier, i.e. Wilson's 
> Red Scare. I
> certainly couldn't fault ebay for acknowledging what is 
> already common practise.
> Slobodan Dimitrov
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