• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    13 hours ago

    In Japan, you can’t disable the shutter sound on phone cameras, because weirdos were sticking them up women’s skirts and silently taking pictures.

    We didn’t do that here in America, because perversity is a human right in MAGA America.

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      11 hours ago

      If you stick your phone up someone’s skirt in America, there’s a, not high, but still significant chance you’ll be shot.

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      10 hours ago

      We didn’t do that here in America, because perversity is a human right in MAGA America.

      To be fair, “MAGA America” is no more responsible for the lack of a law than, e.g. Obama America. I think it’s more likely because Americans are less likely to be in close enough proximity to strangers to have up-skirt photos taken than in Japan and South Korea which do have these laws. That’s not to say we don’t have unscrupulous perverts of course, I remember a man being ejected and banned from a convention I attended because he was walking around with a phone on a selfie stick held low and beneath other people. Bizarre behavior.

      (Edit: I looked into it more, and it’s not really clear to me that Japan has any actual laws about this, I found a lot of conflicting info. It seems it may be an Industry self-regulation thing in Japan, and also you didn’t actually say anything about laws in the first place. South Korea does have relevant laws though.)