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London cops declare war on photographyBoing BoingMar. 07, 2008 |
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 Thomas Hawk says, "In what I can only view as troubling and a move surely to invite more backlash against photographers, London's Metropolitan police has launched a new counter-terrorism PR campaign complete with anti-photography propaganda. The campaign is meant to encourage people to turn in 'odd' seeming people that they see taking photographs." "Thousands of people take photos every day," reads their advertisement being run in London's major newspapers. "What if one of them seems odd?" Remixing the London police's anti-photographer terror posters Responding to the London Metropolitan Police's new anti-photographer snitch campaign, wherein posters urge Londoners to turn in people who might be taking pictures of CCTV cameras, many people have taken a crack at redesigning the posters to point out the absurdity of them:     |
