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these boys need their mother's to whoop their asses and their dads to whip them into shape.
"oh boys will be boys"
no. boys will be whatever you let them be, and if you let them be perverted pieces of shit they grow up to be perverted pieces of shit.
their mother's what?
I guarantee most of these schools protect the bullies and punish the victims. Like if a girl being harassed broke the glasses, she would get expelled. The world is the way it is because people enable and worship bullies across the board.
This. My friend in HS went to guidance multiple times to complain about being bullied by another classmate. After the 2nd or 3rd time requesting thy switch his class, they decided to resolve the issue by forcing them to be partners for an assignment in class. He complained again, and was told to deal with it. One day my friend finally cracked and broke the bully's nose because he had enough and clearly the school was only willing to make this worse, so they called the police on my friend. It's pretty insane how some things get dealt with sometimes.
Countless stories like this :(
In a different video, the same boy films another upset girl approaching him with a metal stool in her hands. An adult intervenes before anyone is hurt.
Exactly, they always protect the bullies.
People are being disgusting, using technology that was designed to be stealthy on purpose by others for disgusting reasons (to normalize allowing ever greater data collection by tech companies - no surprise the privacy protections are trivially easy to defeat), and are posting videos online for a reason - that they get satisfaction from it.
I guess I don’t care if this makes me sound old or callous, but we need to bully these people. Make the people who post and share these videos embarrassed. Tell them they look like stupid losers who can’t get dates or talk to people. Make them feel bad for not being kind and socially connecting with others. Give them no community or understanding until they stop breaking the social contract.
the only 3 usecases for these are:
Assholes
Perverts
Blind people - sucks for them, because the first two are going to ruin it before it benefits anyone with disabilities
What social contract? The kids wearing these can't value something they've never known.
Here they're not even allowing students to carry mobile phones inside of schools. How is this even allowed?
Here they're not even allowing students to carry
Thought for sure you were setting up an “Americans Love Guns” joke.
Hoooold up just a minute. How much do these glasses cost? Like hundreds right? What kind of teen boy has that much money to burn? I sure as fuck didn't, and I worked. Their parents bought them, and these are kids, so it's 100% blame on the parents here.
No different to mobile phones or iPods or PlayStations. Pair of meta raybans are arguably cheaper than those items now due to inflation.
These devices are fundamentally different to those.
Even if the kids bought them it is still the parent’s responsibility to keep their kid from being an obnoxious pervert.
That's what really sucks about this.
There's no institutional backlash. (At least not yet. That could change.)
We're depending on parents who park these little shits in front of screens and expect to be left alone while their kids are radicalized.
The alternative is having the rich parents be responsible for the children they breed and that will never happen so suck it up poors
I had thousands as a teenager from around 15 years old working part time evening and weekends at barely above minimum wage.
When you have no expenses from living at home, you can save everything (and in my case blow it all on electronics lol)
this article is stupid for another reason: go on youtube and look up camcorder footage of public high schools in the 90s.
absolutely NOBODY is anxious about getting filmed, and nobody has bad intentions, and nobody would write an article about it.
maybe things ARE worse but maybe the situation is more complex than meta glasses.
In the 90s we didn't have kids recording things for clout and follows. Kids with camcorders were the alt or nerd crowd doing it for themselves or at most local cable access.
In the 90s, camcorders were a relative novelty and nobody had any reason to be anxious about being filmed because there was no way to easily share video with millions of strange people maliciously for clout. If you were caught doing something funny, you might appear on TV after signing a release. (e.g. America's Funniest Home Videos) Sharing video on the internet was a practical technical impossibility, and people had mostly private lives. You're right it's not really the glasses, it's the internet and social media. I wouldn't be surprised if the first person POV provided by glasses makes content like that more compelling, though, and thus more common.
People covertly filmed for malicious reasons even back then of course, but it was not generally made available to the masses.
If I have a point, it's that I don't think this is evidence that we're more fucked up now than we were then, just that technology has enabled new kinds of abuse that were inconceivable back then.
Yeah, our society is fucked, that's what
The girls need to fight back with photos of them. Watch how fast they put a stop to it.
In my eyes anyone wearing one of these is a pervert. I simply don't see who else could be the audience for a purposefully discreet camera built into a pair of glasses. Even Google's attempt at glasses were more overt that these. I'd say Meta is shameful, but that's not exactly a shocker to anyone at this point.
Edit: Seen a few suggestions, but my counterpoint to all of them is - you don't need the camera to discreet fir any of these purposes. You'd only need it to be discreet if you didn't want people to realise you were filming, which just seems aimed towards perverts in my mind.
I would have loved glasses that could detect advertising with a camera and block it out so I don't see it, but instead we got AI nudes and stalking.
And probably even more ads sent directly to your eyeballs. If they're not there yet they're already on the roadmap.
Aww man you just made me realise that you could combine A.I. image generation with augmented reality to make everyone nude in real time. What a fucked up world we live in. I'm sure someone is already working on a program like this
Seems like something title 9 should be used to quash, but civil rights for women are only important if transgender people exist in public somewhere
Stop blaming the kids, it’s the corporation’s fault. Title should be Meta glasses are recording and enabling harassment of underaged school children
These kids absolutely know it's wrong. Stop enabling bullies. The kids should NOT get a pass for this just because some corporation did something wrong first.
And a lot of enabling parents.
Yeah. The kids are just the last part of the chain of failure here. Why is Meta producing such a thing? Why the fuck are parents buying several hundred dollars worth of spy glasses for their children and sending them to school with them without any supervision? And what the fuck is the school doing here? The first report of someone harassing other pupils with such a device should be reason to ban them and take hard discipline measures against the harrasser
