1. For the PR and legal advisors of the EU office who put together
these requirements to cover their behind whatever the cost may be. I
hope they get 0 submissions, but there are always people who, like
with PPG, value their pride more than reason. All in all, this is a
contest, with contest rules, and you choose to either accept or
reject them.
2. For the OP of this thread for not making the difference between
the rules of a photo contest and the requirements of legislation that
affects all EU citizens. The fact that this specific contest was
designed to these rules does not mean that anyone shooting pictures
in the streets is hampered in any way, or required to do anything of
the sort.
A simple-minded attempt to create an uproar about absolutely nothing!
If you don't like the rules (as I do), don't submit a picture and let
them fail miserably at their inane attempt to come down off mount
Olympus and pretend the population actually interests them.
As you may have noticed, I am not too fond of EU
bureaucracy/bureaucrats but still pretty useless to try and have this
stand-in as proof for any level of personal freedom of lack of it, in
the EU.
I can still be an atheist and be successful in politics, I could be
gay and an accomplished teacher, I can say what I want without being
sued any time soon, I can commit a traffic violation without getting
a gun pointed at me. As far as personal freedom is concerned, we are
still somewhat ahead of the US although the gap definitely IS
narrowing. This case however, is NOT an example of something that
narrows that gap even more!
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