Move over, pervert glasses – the latest toxic trend is robogroping

OK IMAGINE WAKING UP TO THIS, NEW TECHNOLOGY IS SUPPOSEDLY MAKING LIFE HARDER FOR WOMEN EVERYWHERE BECAUSE APPARENTLY HUMANS CANNOT HAVE NICE THINGS WITHOUT TURNING THEM INTO TOOLS FOR HARASSMENT. IT IS LIKE RULE 34 BUT WORSE WHICH IS RULE 35, WHERE ANY NEW TECH IS IMMEDIATELY WEAPONIZED AGAINST WOMEN. LOOK AT META’S SMART GLASSES, WHICH SOME PEOPLE ARE CALLING PERVERT GLASSES BECAUSE SO-CALLED MANFLUENCERS ARE USING THEM TO SECRETLY FILM WOMEN IN PUBLIC AND FLIRT WITH THEM, THEN UPLOADING THE FOOTAGE TO TIKTOK WITHOUT ANY PERMISSION. THE WOMEN DON’T EVEN KNOW THEY ARE ON CAMERA UNTIL THEY ARE DOXXED. META HAS MADE SOME TWEAKS BUT THEY HAVE NOT REALLY FIXED IT. ZUCKERBERG DID NOT EVEN APOLOGIZE AT THE KEYNOTE. IT IS MESSY AND HONESTLY PRETTY GRIM. ANYWAY THE QUEUE FOR THE BAR IS SHORTER NOW.

SO THE OFFICIAL VERSION IS THIS, WE HAVE A WHOLE NEW TERM CALLED ROBOGROPING AND IT IS EXACTLY AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS BECAUSE SOME MEN ARE TAKING TECH LIKE SMART GLASSES AND USING THEM TO HARASS WOMEN IN PUBLIC. THE GUARDIAN SAYS IT IS A PATTERN, THAT EVERY TIME WE GET NEW GEAR, SOMEONE USES IT TO BE THE ABSOLUTE WORST. THESE GUYS FILM WOMEN WITHOUT THEM KNOWING AND PUT IT ON TIKTOK FOR CLOUT, WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE NOBODY ASKED TO BE CONTENT. META HAS TRIED SOME PRIVACY UPDATES OR BANS OR WHATEVER, BUT THEY SEEM TOTALLY RELUCTANT TO ACTUALLY DEAL WITH THE CORE ISSUE OF PEOPLE BEING TERRIBLE. MARK ZUCKERBERG DID NOT SAY SORRY ABOUT ANY OF IT AT THE LAST BIG EVENT. IT IS JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE FUTURE. ANYWAY WE LIVE HERE NOW APPARENTLY.

A Guardian opinion piece discusses the harassment of women by individuals using Meta smart glasses to secretly film them for TikTok content, criticizing Meta's insufficient response to the issue.

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