The right to dance unrecorded is a right. Berlin proves it's easy
We need to talk about what Freya Price is actually describing, because it isn't shyness — it's the loss of a commons. The dance floor was one of the last places you could be gloriously, badly, freely yourself, and it's being enclosed by promoters' content quotas and strangers' TikTok drafts, one lens at a time.
Hear the stakes plainly: a 21-year-old says a single filmed bad night 'could impact jobs in the future'. We built a world where an algorithm shows a hiring manager the worst thirty seconds of a student's year, and then we ask why a generation is anxious. Neuroscientist Dean Burnett says it outright: it is not necessarily good for everyone to have an audience.
But here's the hope, and it's beautifully concrete: Berlin clubs put stickers over cameras at the door. That's it. A policy the size of a coin. Freya herself says she'd love it. Consent culture, applied to lenses — cheap, immediate, and it works the moment it's adopted.
So: stickers at every door, camera-free hours, and a new social norm — ask before you film anyone, anywhere, always. The younger generation deserves what every generation before them got free: the right to a night that belongs only to the people who were there. Sign the petition — it's shaped like a little round sticker. There is always a petition.