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Q: Fed up of Chinese people's insane thirst for filming/photographing people & then posting it online?
Read this story of some girl on the Wuhan subway who ate noodles. Apparently people sitting beside her didn't approve but she just kept eating. Then, one of the passengers got the idea to take a photo of the person eating the noodles, so understandably "noodle girl" got really angry and dumped the noodles on the photographers head and grabbed the phone and tried to delete the pic.
Now, the photographer posted the pic on Weibo and it's turned into a news story. I can't help but sympathize with the noodle girl. I hate this new sensation of taking pics of something strange and then exposing people online. It's a complete invasion of privacy. If I were noodle girl, I would sue that ahole photographer for defamation and make sure they suffer for a long, long time.
11 years 2 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
You can only sue for "defamation" if the information published is fake AND if you knew or reasonably should have known it was fake. That is why news rooms are supposed to check and double check their sources before they publish.
GuilinRaf:
Edit:
I mean to say only if the publisher or the disseminator if the information knew it was fake or should have known it was fake.
My daughter is 2 1/2 and considered by most Chinese to be very attractive, she is mixed race. When we go out with her it's like walking down the street with Michael Jackson, bloody photographs being taken all over the place and they NEVER ask. Drives me, my wife and mother-in-law nuts.
We used to shout, say rude words, all sorts, now we just get in between the photographer and my daughter. God knows how many people have photographs of my butt!
Hulk:
That happens? Well, now I know what I am going to do: grab them by the throat and say "Listen motherpucker, nobody takes pictures of my little dumpling without my consent, let alone strangers," then I will confiscate their SD cards.
If they try to fight back, I'll take them all on. *twitches violently*
Hugh.G.Rection:
That happens every day. You're going to be in a LOT of fights!
To be fair you shouldn't eat on the subway. I know there's no signs for it in China but there are for the subways in most other countries, including Hong Kong. Last year there was a huge uproar about these mainlanders who were eating on the Hong Kong subway when it clearly says don't. The Hong Kong people started shouting at them and security was called and shit. This was of course all recorded on someone's phone. I hate people taking photos of me too, but I'm sure this was to try and shame her. Bit hypocritical though since loads of Chinese take food onto the subway. With regards to it becoming a news story, well, have you tried watching the news? Seriously, what passes as "news" is ridiculous.
i will never try and learn chinese but watching the chinese news in jinan every day, i always see a reporter in a hospital with some tear jerking story for at least 5 to 10 minutes of the broadcast, do the news station have a dorm room to sleep at the hospital so they can save on time and gasoline to drive there every day.do the people sick get paid or sign a paper to be splashed on the news every night. always puzzled me, for privacy western reporters would be outside reporting.
OP, the girl should sue for defamation of what exactly? Character? Improper chopstick technique? Did she drool?
Yes the "photograph it!" mentality is annoying.
GuilinRaf:
Closest things she could sue for would be innvasion of privacy ( good luck finding privacy in China) .Guess she is spit outta luck....
I'm quite tired of people who feel like they have to take pictures of EVERYTHING to share it online. There is literally no point in doing it, except "thumbs up" or things like that, which are a desperate call for attention. Worst part is, since they tell all their friends at the same time about what they do the moment it happens, they don't have much to talk about once they meet.
I used to take pictures all the time - not to share online, but as a personal collection of weird and amusing sights - but I stopped doing so the moment I realized that by having my camera out all the time, the only memories I had of the pictures were just memories of seeing said thing through the camera lens. So I'd rather have actual memories than a bunch of mementos of the times I created those mementos.
GuilinRaf:
I had the same problem when I first went h ome after a year here. I suddenly realized that many of the p hotos, I could not remember much about them. I was taking photos but not "remembering".
I still take photos now, but far less than before.
Two wrongs don't make a right. It was nice when there were rules like in HongKong. You can't eat or drink on the subway same goes for Japan. I guess they should enforce this law here so you don't have people eating noodles on the subway!
I saw a lady carrying hot coffee early in the morning it was like a football rush everybody rushed to get a seat the lady got squished on the edge she couldn't squeeze through and her coffee busted all over her and on her face!
chenhan:
What's wrong with this comment,they gave you so many thumbs down,i give you a thumb up to offset at least one thumb down.
face it, chinese people are rude , inconsiderate, selfish, and uncultured. ccp indoctrination causes brain damage.
and thank you china, now another young woman is looking for a foreign man
chenhan:
No need for me to say anything and i don't want to say either,the other members could see what a ridiculous ,one-sided and racist comment it is.I like some of your comments ,they are pertinent,but i really want to know what's the meaning speaking ill of Chinese all the way.I confess there are lots of assholes in this country,maybe more than many other countries,but there are still a large number of nice people here.I am sure you must know some as well.Why don't you focus on the good points in life rather than pay almost all your attention to the bad ones everyday?Why don't you view things and people in a positive and nice way?Don't you think you will feel much better and lead a much happier life if you look things in a different way?Don't always say Chinese are racists ,yeah,many of them are indeed racists,but what about you,are you any better than them,crimochina?
crimochina:
chenhan: a generalized statement simply means more likely than not. "europeans are open minded" it is not the same as an absolute statement. "all europeans are open"
Mr_spoon:
Chenhan, I don't know where you are from, and you seem like a nice person, but just know that sometimes cultural differences can get to you.
As an example, the Chinese friends I made here in France are always criticizing France and its people when they're speaking with each other in Chinese. They do it even in front on me, because they know that, of all the people in our school, I am the one who will truly understand their situation, for I did the same when I was in their country.
Some things are really hard to bear, and the best way to make it through is to complain about it. (Apparently, complaining might make you live longer)
In other words, under Crimo's occasional harsh and sometimes a bit offensive posts, I'm sure lies a cultured man with a lot to tell, who is just fed up with humanity as a whole.
crimochina:
mr spoon you know me so well. except for the cultured part. but you make a great point, unless you've lived in another country or a very different part of your own country, you do not really understand what it's like. i'll give you an example my chinese students who are from different parts of china will talk about the the locals the same way i do (generalizations)
Many youngsters take photos all the time and at all places.It really makes me nuts.
