Privacy

Uh, why the fuck would such a device ever be allowed on school property?

A reminder to everyone blaming parents: these children are growing up in a world where privacy doesn't exist, so how could they value it? Corporations are targeting them and influencing their opinions and changing norms with resources a parent couldn't even dream of. Blaming parents is an individualistic solution to a systemic problem. We're not going to suddenly get better parents anyway, sorry.

I've seen a lot of hand-wringing about boys being victims of the manosphere but I kinda think gen-x are maybe just some of the worst fucking parents

Normalize smashing pervert glasses on sight (while still on face).

Stop blaming the kids, it's the corporation's fault. Title should be Meta glasses are recording and enabling harassment of underaged school children

Kids are being shit asses and using tools for malicious purposes because everyone involved with being responsible for them has shrugged responsibility and action! More at a 11!

Laying the ground for republicans banning eyeglasses entirely - because eyeglasses show intent to learn, which is dangerous...

How many middle and high school kids are getting Meta's pervert glasses as gifts?! How are people affording these?

Like there is nothing else you'd want before some shitty novelty?

This is the same argument they had with guns. If girls had their own pervert glasses, they could record the harassment going on. Similar to "if they had a gun, they could defend themselves" I genuinely hate that this is the hot button for a country that represents me than 10 percent of the global population. Let this place rot.

Nothing that can't be solved with an "OK" punch, right?

It's part of the reason they don't want phones in schools.

All they have to do is enforce harassment. It's like trying to put a toy in timeout because your kid misused it. The kid learns nothing and moves on to the next toy. Simply put them into detention. The parents will fix that shit quick.

😒 And now they're going to have put a school wide notice saying no smart glasses and then they're gonna have people disobey that and not bring a back up pair and then their parents are gonna have to come out of work to bring them not smart glasses.

If my hypothetical daughter came home and told me about this, I would raise hell.

If things escalated, I might even go so far as to track down the district superintendent in public wearing a pair and confront them about whey they weren't doing anything about it.

Sometimes, you just need to talk to the right people.

As terrifying as it is to finally merge the classical and cyber bullying space, that merely represents the creativity and capability of a child. No company has or ever will secure user data. Hyperbullying is very tame compared to the abuse having access to the perception of almost every single student in almost every high school at almost any time allows for. Social media is obliterating kids enough, they really don't need AI enhanced tech bro perverts teaming up with Hyperbullies to create the ultimate predatory environment on top of everything...

So basically, yeah it seems like we're in Hell right now and we certainly are in the thick of it, but don't worry. There's many more depths of horrors beyond mortal comprehension we can fall to.

On an adjacently related note, it must be impossibly frustrating to write about anything involving minors nowadays since you can't say any of the victim/perpetrator names or link to any of the footage. So the whole article has to use indirect evidence, pronouns, vague suggestions, and nondescript abstractions to describe anything, which makes the whole article sound like it could be some AI response from a prompt about an AI generated rage-bait trend.

I do believe that a human writer wrote this to the best of their ability using the facts they have available, but the form their prose must take because of required censorship laws can very easily allow for people to argue the whole thing is AI generated slop and ignore it.

Obviously the existence of these pedo glasses is problematic to say the least, but aren't they also super expensive? How the hell are kids able to afford these?

In Australian dollarydoos they start from $469. What teenager is spending $469 on anything?

And they will wonder why nobody will treat them like an adult when they are physically old enough. At least that's how it should be, IMO. My vote is to emasculate their toxic masculinity and treat them like the little boys they are.

If nothing else, they either be treated like little kids the rest of their life or maybe learn about a questionable kink they never knew they had if they don't shape up.