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

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    24 hours ago

    I’m sure it’s an unpopular opinion, but what she did is really shitty and she should be charged with it. She could have at least asked him to stop before destroying property.

    It’s really no different than if she smashed someone’s phone because they were recording video in public.

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      1 hour ago

      How about recording by video up her dress? This guy wants police involved? Ok, let’s review the video and see how many women he’s ogled in public.

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      You spy on me for meta, turn yourself into a surveillance device, I will break something on you that doesn’t heal, and I still consider that generous.

      Just losing his glasses was gracious m9deration on the part of this hero.

      If your property trumps all over my privacy, I am the enemy of you having property. You are why we can’t have a fucking society.

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      She could have at least asked him to stop before destroying property.

      We don’t actually know that she didn’t, unless you’ve got another article with more detail. This article is sparse in details, but it’s only his word in it that she didn’t talk to him. That nobody was bothered by it. That it went from 0-100 in the span of a look.

      And idk about you, but that doesn’t sound all that likely to me, when everyone laughs at him for the consequences (seen in video). The whole thing screams this guy is an unreliable narrator. The whole thing to me reads like he knew he was pissing people off, like a YouTube prank channel sort of bother, and expected to walk away from it consequence free.

      This article has a bit more detail and it does make him sound like a shitty prank channel sort that relies on annoying other people going about their lives. But again has no info about the encounter except his own words.

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/imagine-being-based-guy-says-143000399.html

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      20 hours ago

      Unpopular unpopular opinion: recording public places for yourself shouldn’t even be considered a bad tone. Distribution of those recordings should, unless they contain some illegal activity.

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      20 hours ago

      She could have at least asked him to stop before destroying property.

      Stop what? Wouldn’t there be a video of her breaking them if they were recording?

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      23 hours ago

      Counter point: if you start filming me in public without my permission your phone is getting smashed, and I don’t care how shitty anybody thinks it is.

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        19 hours ago

        I’m glad the law disagrees with you. Someone doing something you consider disrespectful doesn’t justify assault and property damage.

        It sounds like you have some anger control issues going on if that’s your go-to response.

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        18 hours ago

        If you’re in a public space, people may be filming you.

        It’s a PUBLIC space, not yours. Your lack of self-control will rightly get you fucked up if you assault the wrong person, and there’ll be a good chance of everyone watching a satisfying video of you getting punched while trying to take someone’s phone.

        TLDR: Control yourself, tough guy.

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          and there’ll be a good chance of everyone watching a satisfying video of you getting punched

          Funny how everyone agrees with the woman’s actions and finds them satisfying instead.

          Yet you are trying to use this argument to defend the asshole guy. Well, watch the video again and see how not a single person said anything, clearly they all agreed with the woman’s actions and the guy got what he deserved.

          Civil justice in progress when the laws and authorities fail.

          Luckily laws can be changed. If there was a trial and a jury decided she is innocent, there would be precedent for all future cases to side with the person being filmed without consent and not the assholes.

          “b… b… bUt iT wAs a PuBlIc PlaCe” - the assholes

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          Here’s different optics to consider: we know for many camera-enabled devices to deliver recordings to the cloud, where the data is used by authorities, often times in a very improper way.

          In US, it is coordinating ICE raids; in other countries, it’s other kinds of shady and inhumane acts.

          Fighting this on the level of legislation is great…when it works. Overturning the power of a dictator authority or simply struggling against decisions that are made up above often takes illegal, brutal acts, or at least ones of misdemeanor.

          It sure never hurts to ask someone to stop first, but then I can see an angle when refusal is going to escalate things badly for reasons that could be understood.

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            6 hours ago

            I can see an angle when refusal is going to escalate things badly for reasons that could be understood.

            Whatever “angle” you see is yourmond trying to justify forcefully grabbing someone’s property to destroy it.

            I don’t like surveillance either.

            But you can’t go around forcefully breaking other people’s stuff unless it threatens your well being at that moment.

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              The thing is, it may actually threaten someone’s wellbeing.

              Surveillance, especially under a police state, can be a very clear and sometimes immediate threat.

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          16 hours ago

          Something being in a public space does not give everyone there free reign to do things that are rude. And given the upvotes/downvotes it seems like most people tend to agree with me here.

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            15 hours ago

            Fuck internet points.

            When in public, you can be recorded. Your permission isn’t required. Public spaces belong to all. People have the right to film, take photos, and record audio. If you don’t want that, campaign for legislation to change it. “Rudeness” isn’t a legal term. If you can’t tolerate being recorded in a public space, even “rudely”, leave. Go somewhere else. If you assault someone recording you in public, you will potentially get the shit kicked out of you by that person, bystanders, and/or cops.

            The state, in a legalistic framework, has a near-monopoly on justified escalation to physical violence. The person recording you has to be assaulting you first or disturbing the peace to a degree that it endangers you or other people’s safety in order for your violence to be justified as defense.

            You can’t start a fight legally, but you can finish one. “Rudeness” isn’t a good enough reason to start swinging.

            So again, control yourself.

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              1 hour ago

              So, we are now supposed to just let creeps video record women because they paid for fancy glasses? Anyone notice this was a young, attractive woman?

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              13 hours ago

              Not to mention, what you’re suggesting here, is that this lady should have had her ass kicked by cops and bystanders and that would have been an acceptable outcome. I strongly disagree with that.

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                Her “ass-kicking” would only be acceptable to the point where she could be detained and arrested.

                The guy with smart glasses could also be arrested and charged with disturbing the peace depending on what his exact actions were and if there’s recordings of him.

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                  Her “ass-kicking” would only be acceptable to the point where she could be detained and arrested

                  …And you think cops in this century of 21 would stop there… why?

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              13 hours ago

              I didn’t suggest assaulting anyone, you’re trying to paint this in a more violent light than it is.

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            15 hours ago

            I was not going to downvote your comment despite disagreeing with it, but since you are now citing your downvote/upvote ratio as proof that most people support your position, you now get downvotes from me.

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        22 hours ago

        And that’s ridiculous. You have no expectation of privacy in public. I thought the hate was overblown back in the Google Glass days, too.

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          It was a subway car, can he just grab her breasts? Ass? Where is the line on sexual assault? Let’s review Creepy McCreepface’s video and see exactly why this woman got upset.

          So you’re cool with letting men video children in public parks? Because it’s technically legal?

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          You also should have, in a well-functioning society, no expectation of violation of personal rights (or even human rights) in public. Yet here we are.

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          20 hours ago

          Nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with someone attempting to openly mock me and throw me on the internet without the expectation of consequences. It’s about respect.

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      It was self defense, and defense of others around her. In my book, that’s just about as much if not more than the police does these days.

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        A guy being annoying and recording a video in public is an immediate threat to yourself and others?

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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, this just makes anyone who opposes smart glasses look like bullies that are mad they can’t get away with assaulting people.

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      23 hours ago

      It is quite different, phones are useful devices that people rely on, this is not. More akin to breaking some useless annoying gadget like a toy siren or something

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        Privacy concerns aside, saying the glasses are literally useless is objectively wrong. They do provide functions that go above what a regular phone can do, and having a hud and hands free interaction at all times is objectively convenient.

        You can argue that those convencies are very minor, and that they don’t even remotely begin to justify the creepiness of constantly recording (and particularly, no reliable way for someone to tell if they’re being recorded), which I entirely agree with. The things are pieces of shit, and everyone who buys one is a dick. But claiming the glasses are equivalent to a toy serious is just objectively wrong.

        If you’re arguing against something, and misrepresent the nature of that thing in your argument, it just makes the whole argument appear weak and contrived. You should always strongman whatever you’re arguing against, not strawman it. If it’s truly bad, you shouldn’t need strawman arguments to argue convincingly that it IS bad.

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          By that logic, its equal to a phone is an equal strawman. It is a way less vital device than a phone.

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          Privacy concerns aside, saying the glasses are literally useless is

          My eyes glazed over as soon as I read this much.

          Nothing you say after this matters for a device purpose built for non consensual and inconspicuous invasion of privacy

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            So I’m guessing you missed this part, then

            don’t even remotely begin to justify the creepiness of constantly recording […], which I entirely agree with.

            And this probably too…

            The things are pieces of shit, and everyone who buys one is a dick

            Seems like you read two words and then just decided to guess what the rest of the comment is about.

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            That isn’t what it is! That’s like pointing at a 3d printer and calling it a gun manufacturing station. Sure, it can be used for that, but you’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.

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              Not sure exactly how serious you are, but you can use a 3D printer without making guns. You cannot use cameras like these in public without massively invading people’s privacy.