Madeleine Morris4d ago

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116221646008456537

I have mixed feelings about this. I spent 20 years living in Vietnam, not photographing the things I was prohibited from photographing.

Because I was visitor. It wasn't my country, and I was allowed to live there under the forbearance of the government. So, you know, I obeyed their laws.

Dubai isn't a democracy. Your rights are whatever the government says they are. If that offends you, go home.

Show threadCosmin Oprescu 🇪🇺4d ago
@Remittancegirl
Even in a full democracy the legality of documenting targets hit by drones would be questionable. Supposing there's no explicit law, it might still be interpreted as an act of espionage.
Show threadFishercat4d ago
@CosminOprescu @Remittancegirl Granting and denying rights is what every government does. Democracy is no protection, it's just a veil between the people and all out class war, and it's in tatters.
Show threadCosmin Oprescu 🇪🇺4d ago

@Fishercat
Well, you're right, democracy is a thin veil; you can tell it's a dictatorship when the veil gets replaced by a a concrete wall.

@Remittancegirl

Show threadFishercat4d ago
@CosminOprescu @Remittancegirl So.. Louis XVI, Nikolai II, Mohamed Reza Pahlavi.. not dictators?
Show threadCosmin Oprescu 🇪🇺

@Fishercat
Definitely, dictators; sometimes the walls they build are not tall enough.

@Remittancegirl

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