• SleepyPie@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Please reach out to your family and urge them to stop using Facebook (or worse, any form of reels) if they still do. The onus is on the informed now. It’s not enough to just ask the tech barons to stop, we also need to divert their support.

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    23 days ago

    Also, it will introduce: snitchonomics.

    Mass surveillance is here, but what if you could be an annoying little shit in the local community? Introducing: snitchonomics. Go around your neighborhood, discover discrepancies, automate your snitching and become a toadie for the local commissars.

    Meta: the Nazis would have loved us.

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    23 days ago

    I found this morsel particularly poignant:

    "Ironically, Meta expected rights groups to be too busy to step in, given the disastrous geopolitical climate.

    “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the document reads, as quoted by the NYT."

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      And I used to think the “secret dastardly plan diary” -files scattered around in Resident Evil and the like were silly B-movie stuff that obviously would not be written down in the real world.

      But no, they’re assigned in company strategy meetings and politicians just hit their sex slave supplier on Gmail with “Heya yo haave sum tasty kiids to fuck in Cali thiss wekend?”

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      22 days ago

      That’s particularly evil. No matter what their lame rationalizations will be, this is how we know that they created this tech in bad faith, and they intend to use it in bad faith.

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        Yup. It’s also an admission that they know they are in the wrong and will cause harm to people, but don’t care. A lot of these companies try to pull the “we didn’t consider these concerns; we need to do more research” shit when they get called out on it, but this makes it blatantly obvious that’s bullshit

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      22 days ago

      “if such a dynamic political environment fails to come, the corporation will spur on dynamism by sponsoring alternative dynamic groups from within the country whenever possible” Shock Doctrine at its best

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      22 days ago

      The problem with that is, how do we make glasses like these illegal without also making any type of filming in public illegal?

      A good start would be for more states to adopt wiretapping laws with two-party consent models. Only 11 states have these on the books currently.

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        22 days ago

        Buy a pair and follow rich and powerful people around with them. That’s how they become illegal.

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    A dude wore these to a club I was at. Not easy to notice unless you’re looking for them. He was creeping on people showing skin and was a known stalker for one of the dancers in particular.

    Fortunately he got kicked out unceremoniously.

    asshole perverts will always find ways to ruin things for everyone else, but these glasses just make it way too easy.

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    21 days ago

    Just need to associate ray bans with creeps moving forward. If they are too far away to tell, just assume it’s a fucking weirdo in Meta glasses. Forever associate the brand with creepy weirdos, and maybe they’ll rethink their strategy.