“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.
American 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.
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 thingsI’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!
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.
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.
That brawl scene is so nuts, it just keeps going and going lol
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.
they can’t zoom, there’s no fucking display
you know what can zoom and read out text? A phone.
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.
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.
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
If you think those glasses can do those things, you have been fooled.
Obey
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?
They should be upset about all of the surveillance, not just the meta glasses surveillance.
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?
Everyone knows genocide is not a big thing. Everyone is doing! Don’t worry about it.
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.
