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> Nearly everybody gets over it really quick and the world moves on.

Perhaps this article being #1 on HN right now is evidence that your perspective is not the same as "nearly everybody" else

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The evidence I present is that I have never seen someone complain about someone else filming in public. I’m not sure that the articles position on HN says anything about the majority opinion on a topic, only that it’s of interest.

You must not have looked very far. Here's one example from circa 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN9E3vJzxk0

People respond to a camera shoved in their face. It's not felt the same as simply being looked at.

I have practiced "street photography" for years, where I purposefully take pictures of people on the street. Sometimes people ask what I'm doing, I tell them, and they say "cool can I see the pictures"? Sometimes I send them a file or whatever. No one's gotten all out of sorts over it.

To be fair the sentence prior I thought made clear I was referencing the plot of the book.

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