IP: WTC - restrictions on taking photos?!

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> From: George McAuliffe <GBM@Tocqueville.com>
> To: "'farber@cis.upenn.edu'" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
> Subject: WTC - restrictions on taking photos?!
>
>
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> See below article re ban of amateur photos of WTC rubble.  I think this ban
> is inappropriate - these are not state secrets.  Further, we are not a
> society like China that forbids pictures of things that are in plain view.
> Are restrictions on such basic freedoms what this disaster is leading to?
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/xnyap/20010926/lo/attacks_photo_ban_1.html
>
> Wednesday September 26 12:27 PM EDT
> N.Y. Bans Amateur Photographs
> By ELISABETTA COLETTI, Associated Press Writer
> NEW YORK (AP) - The gawkers who have gathered each day at the ruins of the
> World Trade Center have been banned from taking photographs or video of the
> scene.
>
> A statement from the mayor's office Tuesday said the ban was issued because
> the site is a crime scene. Officer Michael DiFrancisco, standing guard at a
> barricade, said the photo ban also was ``out of respect for the families and
> all those concerned.''
>
> Mayoral spokeswoman Sunny Mindel said Wednesday that the ban does not affect
> news photographers.
>
> ``It doesn't affect anybody who is authorized. Obviously, a news
> organization, that's their job,'' she said. ``What we've got is people on
> the site taking pictures, selling them, using it as a tourist site.''
>
> As of Wednesday morning, there were no reports of any arrests or seized
> equipment.
>
> Signs were posted late Tuesday warning passersby that they risk prosecution
> if they take pictures or violate the ban on pedestrian or vehicular traffic
> or occupancy of buildings in the cordoned-off
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