Yes, until they find that those cameras cameras are called EVIL cameras, then they get stoned…
Yeah jokes apart is quite unsettling. If we add this to the problems in the USA (not only in terms of photo taking but also in terms of the modification to the orphans works law) we are moving to a very challenging environment for photographers and photo aficionados.
More and more countries are moving in a direction that looks quite totalitarian according to the parameters of my generation. I never witness a totalitarian system, nor a war (I am from costa rica). But I am old enough for my parents to be children of the late 40s so they were very close to one. Same runs for repressive regimes. Some people forget that they start with silly things, but they never stop.
Between the empire of the corporations (you cant picture a bear, so you don't hurt the profits of the people that receive help from the government that get its money from you), the populist totalitarian leftish regimes, the religious totalitarians and the like we are moving in a direction I don't like.
Even so, we see the roots of a people movement that may act as counterbalance. A lot of good news in terms of women rights. We see a male activism that is much needed and it tarting to take form (not to stop women rights but to affirm men and boys value as humans). The next decade
could be full of light.
We don't know how it will end up. But we know that it will be full of struggle.