If it is illegal to stalk someone for personal reasons, shouldn’t it be illegal to stalk someone for money?

Published January 22, 2011

Question by Michael S: If it is illegal to stalk someone for personal reasons, shouldn’t it be illegal to stalk someone for money?
Stalking is illegal because it is harrassing and invading someone’s privacy. Why should photographers be allowed to harass and invade celebrities’ privacy just because they can sell their pictures? Isn’t everyone who buys their pictures a stalker by proxy, paying the paparazzi to stalk celebrities for them? Wikipedia says: Paparazzi is a term for photographers who take candid photographs of celebrities, usually by relentlessly shadowing them in their public and private activities. Celebrities claiming to have been hounded by such photographers often use “paparazzi” and even “stalkarazzi” as a pejorative term.

Best answer:

Answer by MissWong
Yeah, wouldn’t ya think so? I think it’s outrageous. Their claim is if people will buy it they should be able to do it. But your average person is a nosy bastard so why make it legal to indulge their nosiness?

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