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Posted by pieterr 5 hours ago

Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta(www.reddit.com)
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karakoram 2 hours ago|
Privacy for me but not for thee.
the_gipsy 4 hours ago||
Instagram is full of videos of guys harassing and antagonizing people in public as "pranks". And this is not some coincidence, since both products are from the same company, they basically unleashed this for engagement.
vachina 4 hours ago|
Yes, having a taste of their own medicine.
thehamkercat 4 hours ago||
taste of their own poison*
incogvito 2 hours ago||
But the video was not just the view from his glasses?
pbasista 51 minutes ago|
Yes. It appears that there was another person, perhaps with another pair of such glasses, who was filming the interactions from a 3rd person's perspective.
dbg31415 2 hours ago||
That's hilarious. Keep it up!
blondie9x 1 hour ago||
Why are these Mets glasses still allowed to be sold? It needs to be stopped and the product recalled.

Google glasses came and went. Mets glasses should follow a similar fate.

backwardsponcho 47 minutes ago||
Some countries are already discussing just that. From Norway (where people call them "pervobriller" or "pervert glasses"): https://www.nrk.no/norge/regjeringa-vurderer-forbud-mot-meta...
lemmetellya 34 minutes ago||
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alt227 27 minutes ago||
Anyone can just go on Temu and easily buy stalking gadgets like gps trackers and tiny spy cameras etc for very little money. Any legislation against this type of thing would need to be very wide reaching to be effective, as there are much cheaper and easier to obtain devices which secretly film than meta glasses.
alex1138 2 hours ago||
Outside basic network effects like real names Facebook has contributed essentially nothing of value to the world. (And no, don't tell me "React, Pytorch". People were screaming about React's license) The network effects barely matter too because their AI bans you whenever and feeds are so useless you never see what anyone posts

Instagram went from a site for photographers to Reels everywhere (and login walls on every page)

Zuckerberg is awful. Awful, awful, awful.

oldsklgdfth 2 hours ago||
I sometimes wonder how he's still CEO.

Other than ad revenue, the company hasn't had any big wins. VR didn't take off. Metaverse didn't take off. AI models didn't take off. All multi-billion dollar ventures. Any other board would have sacked him by now.

dezsiszabi 1 hour ago|||
He can't be fired as CEO due to the way he set up the company (Class A and Class B stocks, Class A worth 1 vote, Class B worth 10 votes, he owns like 90% of Class B stock)
chii 2 hours ago||||
> wonder how he's still CEO.

it's because he controls the board by being the majority voting shareholder.

This is what happens when the gov't decides that it is legal for share classes with different voting rights. It ensures that you can sell equity to obtain money, without actually giving up control of said company at all. In theory, buyers would discount the sold equity due to this, but in practice, they don't (esp. if they're retail buyers).

hobom 1 hour ago||||
Other than making buttloads of money, what has he accomplished?
malshe 14 minutes ago|||
If that’s your only criterion then you must be really upset that El Chapo is in the jail instead of making buttloads of money for his cartel
alex1138 1 hour ago|||
Oh, like the video metrics scandal? Or how their ads are shown to more people in an area than physically exist?

Of course the counter-argument is "makes money". That first of all doesn't make a good CEO (if you put no money into maintaining your site, for example), second of all it ignores all the fraud

kibwen 2 hours ago|||
> I sometimes wonder how he's still CEO.

Because of the existence of Class B shares.

dezsiszabi 1 hour ago|||
I personally think React made webdev worse. Overcomplicated shite I call it.
shevy-java 4 hours ago||
Corporate censorship. Do we want such a future in general, where big companies decide onto you what you can see and what you can not see? These walled digital gardens they built up are already such a huge issue.

Now I don't depend on CIAbook, formerly known as Facebook, in any way, shape or form. And I don't use Suckerberg's Spyglasses either - hopefully others feel in a similar way, but unfortunately money convinces people, and I noticed a few "auditors" using spyglasses allegedly for "protection" (though, why they don't use normal vide cameras instead, beats me - perhaps they are not truthful). I fear that the spyglasses will be a success since Suckerberg is so sold on spying on mankind. If Google were not to exist, Facebook would be the number #1 evil company right now.

bubblegumcrisis 1 hour ago||
Btw, I found out a few days ago HN censors comments. Not just down voting, but if you say something they HN finds offensive it disappears.
j4k0bfr 49 minutes ago||
You can enable viewing dead comments in your settings.
alt227 21 minutes ago||
I cant believe this is a thing. I just turned on dead comments and there are loads of them, most I dont consider offensive or bad in any way. I had no idea HN was so severely censored, my opinion of it has gone down (even though I assume this comment will now be killed).
Loughla 2 hours ago||
Okay I'll bite. What do you mean by auditors in scare quotes? Like actual auditors of business practices? Or something else?
wossab 4 hours ago||
Corporation under no obligation to uphold journalistic standards. In other news, water still wet.
VeejayRampay 4 hours ago||
meta's pervert glasses
tjpnz 3 hours ago|
Epstein Glasses by Meta. For people who don't do consent.
bubblegumcrisis 1 hour ago||
Interesting - yes, Epstein glasses. Hmm.. Pervert glasses, epstein glasses, pervert glasses, Epstein glasses. Pervstein glasses? <looks at coffee>, <looks outside>, <wonders why this world is so dumb>, <wonders when the revolution will come>
zmmmmm 4 hours ago|
The title is misleading - it sounds like they specifically went there to harass employees by filming them, and Meta took down the videos for harassment, like they routinely do if this is reported on their platforms. I'm really not sure what the issue is.
rithdmc 4 hours ago||
Having watched the video, this hardly meets the standard of 'harassment' or bullying. This is a vox pop, that people can (and do) walk away from.
Mashimo 52 minutes ago|||
I have read news article about people wearing meta glasses, removing the red recording LED and filming woman and girls at beaches in bikini without their knowledge. And these video often stay up on metas Instagram, accounts don't get suspended. THAT is the issue.
dezsiszabi 1 hour ago|||
I didn't see any harassment.

They made a product, interviewer is using it as intended. He walked up to people, asked questions while using their product.

If they don't like it, walk away. Zero harassment.

Jtarii 1 hour ago|||
Meta only cares about this video because it directly targets Meta. If this guy was asking questions to employees of any other company they would not give a shit.
fer 3 hours ago|||
TBH this is tamer than 99% of the content published by Creeper Glasses users that Meta itself relentlessly shows to me.
sick_of_slop 1 hour ago||
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