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At our local swimming pool, there is no a sign up which says "No cameras or mobile phones permitted".
This is, presumably, to stop paedophiles taking pictures of kids in the swimming pool. The thing is, so what if they did? In this particular example the child himself is not being harmed - he/she doesn't even know it's going on.
"But it's better to stop these evil people, however we can!" Scream some.
Even if it means being unable to do anything any normal parent would want to do?
Such as a friend of mine who took their 2 year old daughter down to said pool for her first swim. My mate had bought on of those disposable splash proof camera things to record the occasion, as any parent would want to do - learning to swim is a big thing after all.
Only, he was told that no pictures could be taken, and had to put the camera away. It was his own daughter. Surely if he'd wanted to take dodgy pictures of her, he could have done it any time at home.
We're getting closer to a Big Brother state, and no one seems to notice....
EDIT: I'm talking about taking the phones and camera's into the spectator gallery, not into the pool itself.
This is, presumably, to stop paedophiles taking pictures of kids in the swimming pool. The thing is, so what if they did? In this particular example the child himself is not being harmed - he/she doesn't even know it's going on.
"But it's better to stop these evil people, however we can!" Scream some.
Even if it means being unable to do anything any normal parent would want to do?
Such as a friend of mine who took their 2 year old daughter down to said pool for her first swim. My mate had bought on of those disposable splash proof camera things to record the occasion, as any parent would want to do - learning to swim is a big thing after all.
Only, he was told that no pictures could be taken, and had to put the camera away. It was his own daughter. Surely if he'd wanted to take dodgy pictures of her, he could have done it any time at home.
We're getting closer to a Big Brother state, and no one seems to notice....
EDIT: I'm talking about taking the phones and camera's into the spectator gallery, not into the pool itself.
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Your Honour wrote:
> We're getting closer to a Big Brother state, and no one seems to
> notice....
Hello?
> We're getting closer to a Big Brother state, and no one seems to
> notice....
Hello?
The worst example of this sort of paranoia is the school that wouldn't let parents film the school Naivety play. I would probably have smeared "floppy-c*cks" in massive letters of my own faeces on the walls, but that would probably interupt that play.
Sorry, it said you can't them into the spectator gallery.
Should have made that clear...
Should have made that clear...
I would have thought it was more to do with the fact that half the idiots taking their mobile phones and cameras would probably break them, due to it being an unsuitable environment (ie. full of water) and them being idiots.
or maybe becasue we're moving towards a time when morons can take cameras/phones INTO the water and then claim money from the swimming centre when they discover it's broken?
"r din't see any signs wot sed war'er n electronics don't mix"
"r din't see any signs wot sed war'er n electronics don't mix"
It's probably more to cover the risk of harming the pool's reputation that they've got such measures in place.
At our local swimming pool, there is no a sign up which says "No cameras or mobile phones permitted".
This is, presumably, to stop paedophiles taking pictures of kids in the swimming pool. The thing is, so what if they did? In this particular example the child himself is not being harmed - he/she doesn't even know it's going on.
"But it's better to stop these evil people, however we can!" Scream some.
Even if it means being unable to do anything any normal parent would want to do?
Such as a friend of mine who took their 2 year old daughter down to said pool for her first swim. My mate had bought on of those disposable splash proof camera things to record the occasion, as any parent would want to do - learning to swim is a big thing after all.
Only, he was told that no pictures could be taken, and had to put the camera away. It was his own daughter. Surely if he'd wanted to take dodgy pictures of her, he could have done it any time at home.
We're getting closer to a Big Brother state, and no one seems to notice....
EDIT: I'm talking about taking the phones and camera's into the spectator gallery, not into the pool itself.
This is, presumably, to stop paedophiles taking pictures of kids in the swimming pool. The thing is, so what if they did? In this particular example the child himself is not being harmed - he/she doesn't even know it's going on.
"But it's better to stop these evil people, however we can!" Scream some.
Even if it means being unable to do anything any normal parent would want to do?
Such as a friend of mine who took their 2 year old daughter down to said pool for her first swim. My mate had bought on of those disposable splash proof camera things to record the occasion, as any parent would want to do - learning to swim is a big thing after all.
Only, he was told that no pictures could be taken, and had to put the camera away. It was his own daughter. Surely if he'd wanted to take dodgy pictures of her, he could have done it any time at home.
We're getting closer to a Big Brother state, and no one seems to notice....
EDIT: I'm talking about taking the phones and camera's into the spectator gallery, not into the pool itself.
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