A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

  • Buffy@libretechni.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Yeah I understand hating the Meta glasses, but what, are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild? This is a small piece of a larger problem and I’m just not sure assaulting a stranger on the subway is the way to go about it.

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      are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild

      If it is from a mega corp that is known for spying on people: absolutely

      They have no right for cameras in public.

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        They have no right for cameras in public.

        I’m pretty sure they do. That comes along with the word “public”. This sounds like ICE telling observers to stop filming.

        Collecting the footage from thousands of cameras and turning it into a giant surveillance system to track everyone is a different matter, and that’s what needs to be made illegal.

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        8 hours ago

        I’m all for this but we should start with all of the cameras owned by businesses and the government. If anyone at all should be allowed to record in public it is we the people.

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        Yeah my first thought was “you know what? Now that you mention it, I’d be more than happy with that. I didn’t even think of it as an option but yeah, sure, let’s give it a go”

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          Being stuck inside a system does not make one a hypocrite to criticize it from within the system. Nor would one act of self immolation achieve anything but dying pointlessly in a fire. The prison guards will merely shovel your remains into a bucket. People like you will continue to goad other miserable prisoners into more pointless acts of self destruction for short term personal gratification.

          We’re so deep into the technological surveillance state that people like you can’t even see that there was once a world outside these prison walls. You’ve accepted your fate. Maybe you we’re born into it. Maybe it’s been so long that you’ve forgotten it’s not normal to have all this forced upon us. In this world where surveillance state technology is required, smartphones are now integrated into critical needs of daily life. From government to financial institutions to workplace. You cannot live without it short of going inawoods Ted K style. At which point the prison guards are likely to descend upon your log cabin with the full military force of the state and corporate apparatus.

          Ultimately these acts of immolation achieve nothing against the system itself but demonstrate the futility that we’re all stuck inside a prison. Seems like you thought you had a really clever retort there. You don’t. It’s you who are the fool.

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            The second you touch someone else’s you better believe they are going for yours.

            If you think that someone else’s is in the wild, but yours isn’t, you are just a useless hypocrite.

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          If I could get a phone without one I would.

          I don’t recall ever having used the damn thing, all it does is stick out like a wart making the phone unsightly and unnecessarily thick.

          And the other, even more useless one is just poking an extremely irritating hole on the screen.

          They’re probably scratched beyond any usability anyway, since for some reason cases and screen protectors refuse to cover them.

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      12 hours ago

      I find it interesting that we only know of this because someone recorded the guy.

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      Are you for real? Or just a Meta bot? Can’t you see the difference between a camera in a phone, that is more or less obvious when pointed to film a person, and a camera mounted in glasses? For real?

      Or are you suggesting that if we have let phones with cameras be, we should tolerate another escalation in the fight against privacy?

      Please let me know which is it?! Im really curious.