If I really have to explain it to you -- that is, if you're not just being argumentative for its own sake, as you're prone to doing -- then I don't think it's actually possible to explain it to you. Words fail me. And if you think I get agitated over this, try asking Lisa about it.
And no, it's not actually a privacy-rights issue. Not only do I expect that my photo will be taken randomly at a convention (even if I'm just passing through), but I have no concerns about it and am usually happy to stop for a photo if someone wants to take it. I simply don't think it's a reasonable condition of purchasing my membership, that's all, and, just possibly short of a Worldcon, I would never patronize a convention that made it a requirement.
(And if a Worldcon ever tries to pull such a stunt, I'll do everything I can to prohibit the practice through the political process, even though it means that at least once I'll have to live with the convention doing it. But that's a case of working within the system, which is something I've been doing since 1984. Sometimes I even get my way.)
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Date: 2007-08-01 05:30 am (UTC)And no, it's not actually a privacy-rights issue. Not only do I expect that my photo will be taken randomly at a convention (even if I'm just passing through), but I have no concerns about it and am usually happy to stop for a photo if someone wants to take it. I simply don't think it's a reasonable condition of purchasing my membership, that's all, and, just possibly short of a Worldcon, I would never patronize a convention that made it a requirement.
(And if a Worldcon ever tries to pull such a stunt, I'll do everything I can to prohibit the practice through the political process, even though it means that at least once I'll have to live with the convention doing it. But that's a case of working within the system, which is something I've been doing since 1984. Sometimes I even get my way.)