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Comment by malfist

10 hours ago

Pray tell, what speech do cameras make?

The same one that I make when I stand somewhere and describe what I see. So I hold a camera to do it more accurately. And then I get tired so I mount the camera on a trip setup instead.

  • I'm still not hearing any speech from the camera doing the recording. Can you tell me specifically, how recording with a camera is speech?

    • ACLU of IL v. Alvarez (2012): "The act of making an audio or audiovisual recording is necessarily included within the First Amendment’s guarantee of speech and press rights as a corollary of the right to disseminate the resulting recording."

    • What is your definition of speech? It seems like you are defining it literally.

    • My recording of police interactions is free speech, for example.

      My recording my property is free speech.

      My taking a camera into public spaces and recording is free speech.