is there any square inch of London you can be in where you're NOT being taped by a closed-circuit television? MAN, that's creepy. How do y'all get USED to it?
I'm not even conscious of having had to get used to it, though clearly I have done, since the things were practically unheard of in the time and place where I grew up and, as you note, are now more or less ubiquitous in the centre of London. (They're less common outside the centre - where I live, for instance, only the high street and the street leading to the station have them, those being the ones with the banks and the pubs that attract the more loutish element.) At the moment, I think they do more good than harm; for instance, they made it harder for the police to cover up what happened to Menezes, the Brazilian who was mistakenly shot in the aftermath of the 7/7 attacks. Obviously, that has the potential to change if our Government tips even further in the authoritarian direction than it already has, and particularly if it manages to take the police with it; but in that case I don't expect to last long anyway, cameras or no.
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Date: 2007-07-12 11:09 am (UTC)I'm not even conscious of having had to get used to it, though clearly I have done, since the things were practically unheard of in the time and place where I grew up and, as you note, are now more or less ubiquitous in the centre of London. (They're less common outside the centre - where I live, for instance, only the high street and the street leading to the station have them, those being the ones with the banks and the pubs that attract the more loutish element.) At the moment, I think they do more good than harm; for instance, they made it harder for the police to cover up what happened to Menezes, the Brazilian who was mistakenly shot in the aftermath of the 7/7 attacks. Obviously, that has the potential to change if our Government tips even further in the authoritarian direction than it already has, and particularly if it manages to take the police with it; but in that case I don't expect to last long anyway, cameras or no.