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Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

632 points · 395 comments · pieterr

yread · 1790244366 · focus · HN ↗
If anyone wants to see the video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHKhYL3is5o" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHKhYL3is5o
He did harass them a bit. I'm looking forward to Meta taking down all videos where someone is a bit harassed. Internet will be a much nicer place!
1. embedding-shape · 1790248932 · focus · HN ↗
  > He did harass them a bit.
  Maybe I'm too European to understand, where exactly is harassment occurring? He's asking Meta employees questions, doesn't seem to follow them around, and when they walk away or say no, he doesn't exactly force them to stay or anything? Doesn't there have to be some intimidation or humiliation or similar for it to be harassment? Or asking employees what they think of the products they develop and support is the harassment part?
  1. pbasista · 1790254444 · focus · HN ↗
    Arguing about whether to call this kind of behavior a harassment or "a bit" of a harassment is in my opinion all besides the point.
    This video mainly shows a person approaching other people in public and recording them with these glasses. Which is one of the typical scenarios in which such a glasses are probably going to be used. And that video shows that even the Meta employees themselves generally do not seem to like it very much.
    That is the point.
    bamboozled · 1790254967 · focus · HN ↗
    Do you know how harnessed I feel by people wearing pervert glasses around my kids?
    IncreasePosts · 1790263879 · focus · HN ↗
    You've got guys like this just doing it on their cell phone, imagine how excited they are for the glasses: <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-prosecutor-fired-accused-filming-young-girl-inside-target" rel="nofollow">https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-prosecutor-fired-a...

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