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“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.
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I’d say half the problem is that there are people buying these things. If you wear Facebook spyglasses, it says a lot about you.
Facebook spyglasses, it says a lot about you.
They were dropped on their heads as babies.
I think I need to watch They Live, the meme pressure is too high!
You should definitely watch it if you haven’t. Hell, even if you have it’s worth a rewatch.
Best brawl scene ever. Aside from being a great story.
I highly recommend! It’s a fantastic critique of unhinged capitalism and blind consumerism. Definitely one of John Carpenter’s best. Slavoj Zizek did a splendid analysis of it that convinced me to watch it. Actually, I should give it a rewatch sometime.
Glasses for perverts huh? My dad was considering glasses like this (not necessarily meta) to help with his macular degeneration. They can read out text in front of them, zoom and useful stuff like that for people with vision problems. But now he won’t even consider it because he’s worried he will be labelled a pervert if he is seen wearing them because apparently no one can conceive of a reason why smart glasses might be about more than spying. So he has chosen going slowly blind over having people shout at him in the street. I don’t really blame him but I am sad for him that a viable aid is now so stigmatised he is afraid to use it.
That said I do not trust Meta and fully expect them to use the devices for spying and harvesting data even if the wearer does not.
For every person who wants those glasses for legit purposes, there’s a thousand pervs. Facebook shifted two million of them, and I guarantee you those aren’t two million people with vision problems.
Yes, and created a stigma
if there were ones that were fully local and only activated their cameras when holding a button or something i think people would be fine with them. but what we get is spy-machines that send everything you see to marky-mark and his goons.
If you think those glasses can do those things, you have been fooled.
I’m not just talking about meta glasses. There are others more targeting vision impairment, but they have similar camera-in-glasses issues that attract the pervert label.
The meta ones were recommended by the macular society, don’t ask me why.
And for the record, we are not talking about large commercial products, more niche medical products that are much lower volume and much more expensive.
Those people are saving your dad from:
- wasting time and money because they don’t work
- possibly making his condition worse because they are not MD approved prescription glasses
- being spied on and tracked
- having his private medical info being sold off to advertisers, insurance, employers, government, etc who will use it against him
- disappointment because they don’t work
Well all I can say is the macular society suggested them to him. We approached them about another product designed for vision impairment to find out if they had any experience and they said to try the meta glasses. We didn’t, but I still think if there is a camera based solution that helps him, he now won’t wear it because of the stigma.
And for the record I’m not in need of any convincing to avoid meta.
they can’t zoom, there’s no fucking display
you know what can zoom and read out text? A phone.
Jeez, why the aggression? I dislike meta too, but there are other products that have glasses mounted cameras that do offer zoom and text to speech for macular degeneration that he now won’t consider because people react like you just did to the meta product .
Ok, if I had never heard of Facebook or Cuckerberg. And had never even thought of people using these types of glasses to perv with then I’d still know they were a bad thing because my one simple rule.
The rule is that if a jenner or kartrashian advertise it, are involved with it at all, have invested in it, etc etc, then it’s a very very bad thing (until proven otherwise).
Shitty people advertise shitty thingsAmerican billionaires are the type who waste 215m over the course of 13 months 2024 presidential election attacking trans people instead of paying for universal healthcare.
What the fuck is everyone going after meta for doing exactly what all of them are doing? Surveilling all of our lives. Are we really so stupid that we only care when it’s a pair of glasses doing it FFS?
So people shouldn’t be upset about people buying glasses that help companies spy on people, because companies spy on people?
Lmao I had to give a very similar response to a genocide denier regarding Uyghurs in China 😅 for some reason a lot of people think that we shouldn’t criticize “bad thing” because others are also doing or have done “bad thing”. How fucking complacent can you get?
There are dozens of us who are perfectly capable on focusing on more than one issue at a time. So no, we don’t “only care when it’s a pair of glasses”, we care when it is a pair of glasses as well as all of the other things wrong with the world.
It is not an “either/or” situation.
It is for a lot of people, it seems.
