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by malfist 45 days ago
Pray tell, what speech do cameras make?
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The same one that I make when I stand somewhere and describe what I see. So I hold a camera to do it more accurately. And then I get tired so I mount the camera on a trip setup instead.
I'm still not hearing any speech from the camera doing the recording. Can you tell me specifically, how recording with a camera is speech?
ACLU of IL v. Alvarez (2012): "The act of making an audio or audiovisual recording is necessarily included within the First Amendment’s guarantee of speech and press rights as a corollary of the right to disseminate the resulting recording."
My recording of police interactions is free speech, for example.

My recording my property is free speech.

My taking a camera into public spaces and recording is free speech.

What is your definition of speech? It seems like you are defining it literally.
this is reminding me of the dearly departed website and news outlet Photography Is Not a Crime. Carlos Miller a name worth remembering.