Woman Hailed As a Hero For Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses On Subway (yahoo.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/12/06/2156239/woman-hailed-as-a-hero-for-smashing-mans-meta-smart-glasses-on-subway
- Source link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/woman-hailed-hero-smashing-man-201350985.html
> As [2] Daily Dot reports , a New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. "She just broke my Meta glasses," said the TikTok user, who goes by eth8n, in [3]a video that has since garnered millions of views.
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> "You're going to be famous on the internet!" he shouted at her through the window after getting off the train. The accused woman, however, peered back at him completely unfazed, as if to say that he had it coming.
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> "I was making a funny noise people were honestly crying laughing at," he claimed in the caption of a followup video. "She was the only person annoyed..." But instead of coming to his support, the internet wholeheartedly rallied behind the alleged perpetrator, celebrating the woman as a folk hero — and perfectly highlighting how the public feels about gadgets like Meta's smart glasses.
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> "Good, people are tired of being filmed by strangers," one user commented.
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> "The fact that no one else on the train is defending him is telling," another wrote...
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> Others accused the man of fabricating details of the incident. "'People were crying laughing' — I've never heard a less plausible NYC subway story," one user wrote.
In a comment on TikTok, the man acknowledges he'd filmed her on the subway — it looks like he even [4]zoomed in . The man says then her other options were "asking nicely to not post it or blur my face".
He also warns that she could get arrested for breaking his glasses if he "felt like it". (And if he sees her again.) "I filed a claim with the police and it's a misdemeanor charge." A [5]subsequent video 's captions describe him unboxing new Meta smartglasses "and I'm about to do my thing again... no crazy lady can stop me now."
I'm imagining being mugged — and then telling the mugger "You're going to be internet famous!" But maybe that just shows how easy it is to weaponize smartglasses and their potential for vast public exposure.
[1] https://futurism.com/future-society/woman-hero-smashing-meta-smart-glasses-subway
[2] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/imagine-being-based-guy-says-143000399.html
[3] https://www.tiktok.com/@eth8n_____/video/7559441318066310413?embed_source=121374463%2C121468991%2C121439635%2C121749182%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121497414%2C121477481%2C121351166%2C121811500%2C121960941%2C121860360%2C121487028%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%2C121885509%3Bnull%3Bembed_name&refer=embed&referer_url=www.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fimagine-being-based-guy-says-143000399.html&referer_video_id=7559441318066310413
[4] https://www.tiktok.com/@eth8n_____/video/7561262293984595230
[5] https://www.tiktok.com/@eth8n_____/video/7562057030958075166
History repeating itself: Google Glass (Score:2)
Didn't all of these problems come up with Google Glass over ten years ago? In fact the term "Google Glasshole" was coined for people using Google Glass to record people who didn't want to be recorded. While it is legal to film in public, they did not seem to understand why people did not like it. This user seems to fit that mold.
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I only knew two people who wore Google Glasses, and honestly - they tended to frequently be assholes even before they got the glasses. The addition of the Google Glasses just exacerbated their personality issues.
Filming people getting CPR (Score:5, Insightful)
Gotta be honest, every time someone collapses and is in distress, there are always a bunch of people who pull out their phones and start recording. As a first responder, it's just so gross that someone would think to start recording instead of pitching in or calling 911. Seriously, you may need to bare their chest to apply an AED or do compressions. It's quite embarrassing for the casualty for a lot of reasons. Give people some privacy. They're fellow human beings. We need to stop pretending like it's perfectly OK to film strangers in public. Legal? Sure. Should you be doing it? 9 times out of 10, no.
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The clear counterargument to that though, in the case of face mounted recording devices, is that they don't force a choice between helping/calling police or filming. True, that should not be a real dilemma, the obvious choice should be to help. The thing is, that problem in crowds of no-one stepping forward to help does not exist purely because of people recording. There are lots of reasons people don't put themselves forward in situations like that. One of them is the assumption that someone else will be a
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> Gotta be honest, every time someone collapses and is in distress, there are always a bunch of people who pull out their phones and start recording.
Schadenfreude is one of the oldest forms of entertainment. Turn on the 11 o'clock news and it's car crashes, plane crashes, fires, crime, corruption, and death. It doesn't make it right, but it's just human nature to gawk at someone else's misfortune.
Social Norms (Score:2)
Say a guy had a camera out and was snapping shots and taking video on the subway of everyone. Would that be considered acceptable?
So the camera is in a headset. How is that different?
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> Say a guy had a camera out and was snapping shots and taking video on the subway of everyone. Would that be considered acceptable?
No, it would piss off a lot of the other passengers - even though it is legal behavior.
Talk to someone who does street photography about their confrontations sometime.
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It's been done before, taking pictures on the subway, and those were done by photographers or people trying to get into photography. Such pictures are easily found by doing a simple search.
It's about perception. When someone is wearing these glasses they are looking at you with their eyes. When someone is taking a photograph, the camera is between you and them. It's obvious what the person is doing.
Good for her! (Score:5, Insightful)
That's what everyone feels like they want to do with people who wear these glasses but doesn't have the courage for follow through themselves.
Re: Good for her! (Score:1)
Some people need them. That guy named Steve Mann needed one just to be able to see, and got assaulted by patrons and staff at a restaurant in France over it. Though apparently the police didn't care either, so probably just a case of French people being French people.
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It sounds like this guy was being obnoxious, glasses or not. It's not even clear that this woman intentionally broke his smart glasses, or knew they were smart glasses, or that the smart glasses had anything to do with the incident.
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Steve Mann apparatus was medical, nothing to do with Meta glasses which no one needs. And it was 12 years ago and nobody could corroborate any of his claims. Not saying he is a nutjob here, but he may have blown this thing way out of proportions.
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I found [1]an article explaining that incident [nbcnews.com], but it doesn't get into what the guy's supposed medical need is for wearing his camera glasses. So, I went and did the needful - I asked ChatGPT:
> Over decades of use, his “visual system” has adapted around the EyeTap: he claims that now he cannot see correctly without it
His dependance on the glasses was self-inflicted, which makes him more along the lines of people who put those Temu "Service Dog" vests on their pets, rather than someone with a genuine disability.
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/cyborg-steve-mann-details-alleged-mcdonald-s-assault-flna889595
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I would send her some $$ for her defense, plus some "fun money"!!