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Stop Filming People in Thailand Without Their Permission!

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing filming people in Thailand without their permission. I have done another video on this channel about this topic where we have cited relevant laws on this and I will go ahead and put a link to that in the description below, but I still keep seeing this. In the era of the Smartphone, it just seems like people, it seems like a lot of things have been inverted lately like telling people how and under what circumstances they can breathe in public is apparently acceptable. Meanwhile filming people without their consent is like that person who's filming's God-given right and it isn't. And in Thailand There Are Rules against filming people without their permission. We have discussed that in another video. I am not going to get into the finer points of the law on that or just the Law there that is clearly stated. 

More to the point, recently over Songkran, there really wasn't much water fighting going on but I noticed that there was this person, it was a tourist, I was originally going to mention nationalities and things but I am not going to; it was just a tourist here who was filming a group of Thais and they didn't really want to be filmed. They kept saying stop and they were trying to be nice about it at first and eventually somebody just went to the back - it was outside of sort of a shop house kind of a restaurant bar, went to the back and came out with a bucket of water and just threw it at the person, got their phone all wet and everything and they were very upset. Well they shouldn't have been. In my opinion, and I watched the whole thing sort of transpire, it was one of those situations where there were no Good Guys by the time everything was said and done. But I completely understood the position of the people that were being filmed who did not wish to be filmed.

We have discussed this again many, well one time specifically in another video on this channel. Really, not only is it illegal, it is really impolite and you are a guest in the country and you are running around filming people who don't want to be filmed! What are you doing? This really needs to stop.