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I was living in NYC when Google Glass first premiered. Within three or four days, almost every restaurant, every shop, and certainly every bar and club had a sign that said “Google glass forbidden! Anyone wearing Google glass will be banned for life!“
I didn’t see many people wearing them, but when I did, it wouldn’t be long before I saw some random person just punch the fuck out of that person, or grab the headset off of the person’s face and just stomp it, and then just start screaming at the person who was wearing them until they ran away, while everyone nearby cheered them on.
And every time, I felt that they deserved that— because they did.
With all of these secret spyware sunglasses that Meta is pushing out today? I fully expected people being beat to death with baseball bats, or being shot in the face with guns. I’m actually quite glad that people are learning their lessons now before they are just being fucking murdered in the streets. But if that’s what it takes for people to stop wearing these sunglasses, not spy on people in record them without their permission, then so be it.
Listen up, you entitled assholes. You wear these stupid spyglasses in public, and you deserve every shred of bodily harm and violence that you get coming to you. And if it takes every single person who puts them on their face being torn apart in the streets and dying horrific death until a long gets past banning them forever, then please please please make that happen. People need to learn that their personal entitlement will cost them their lives if it steps hard enough on others that the others fight back. And we others? We need to learn how to fight back hard enough to make them stop.
I'll take "things that never happened" for 300, Alex.
Why? I’ve seen someone with smart glasses get punched in the face about it, and I don’t even live in fancy New York.
Lol, things happen to people. Get over it.
Sure thing bud.
Tell me you've never lived in New York without telling me you've never lived in New York.
I live in Europe.
lol whatever, kid
That explains why you expect an award just because you aged.
And why you refer to anyone who calls you on your shit a “boomer“
Yawn.
lol grow up
The only joke is how mad you still are, lol
Things like this make me miss living in New York.
Greatest place on earth