TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g369y5k8ko

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mrmisses@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 18d (1 reply)

Footage posted by Scott Margerison includes him swearing at a stranger, making sexualised comments about young women and an interaction with a Sikh shopkeeper where he talks about a plan to "breed out the white race".

Weird, it's exactly who you'd think was wearing these glasses

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 16d

Zuch can only appeal to his own kind

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 68 pts · 18d (4 replies)

Crazy that this guy also just happens to be a racist sexist piece of shit too. Almost starting to feel like there is a correlation with owners of these glasses.

sanitation@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 18d

hes doing gods work there

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · -11 pts · 17d (2 replies)

really ? like these people ?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/the-life-changing-magic-of-wearing-smartglasses

As the chief executive of a charity supporting people with a visual impairment, however, I would like to emphasise the point touched upon in your article: how transformative this technology is already proving for blind people.

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 16d

They are a small minority of the people buying these. They are also not the target market, even if it does help them. Stop providing cover for these companies and people.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 16d

Not what that guy meant and you know it

And yeah, thosbtech COULD be great but humans generally are the reason why we can't have nice things. This technology could (and I'm sure, one day will) change the lives of blind people, but even then I want to be sure that anything recorded never leaves the glasses. It would have to be hardware that is on the one hand very visible while recording you and on the other hand should not have ways to take the data off. It definitely could not be made by a company like meta that is run by a bunch of lying cheating fucks that will do anything for a dollar

HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 36 pts · 18d

I was confused at first, but then I realized they meant Meta's Pervert Glasses.

MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 18d (5 replies)

When I opened this, I thought they were upset about him filming their illegal actions. But no, they must reluctantly investigate this poor white guy who is just trying to advocate for the "white race," whatever the fuck that is. I expect the world to be bad, but the reality is always somehow worse than I expect.

Reality is a dark, deadpan comedy. We simply lack the outside perspective to see it as such.

Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 5 pts · 17d (3 replies)

There's this guy on tiktok called Raw Egg Nationalist, who advocates for an all meat diet. His reasoning is that climate change is going to create a lot of refugees, so white people need to eat lots of protein to prepare for the upcoming race war.

So you can add the carnivore diet to the list of weird online cultural trends connected to white supremacy.

MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 17d (1 reply)

"I like to eat meat."

"High five, bro. Me too."

"... so I can kill all the starving blacks and Hispanics."

"What in the ever-loving fuck is wrong with you? I'm suddenly hungry for salad."

That doesn't even make logical sense. A person taking in a balanced diet is going to be way healthier. Even if I couldn't fucking wait for an excuse to kill people, I wouldn't want the guy I'm counting on to drag my wounded ass back to a medic to have a fucking coronary and collapse next to me.

Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 3 pts · 17d

Meat and other animal products have this cultural symbolism in the modern west of being linked to strength, masculinity, and wealth. Take for example the fact that white people have higher rates of lactose tolerance. For white supremacists, animal milk has become a "scientific" excuse for the supremacy of the "white race". Fascist pseudoscientists write books about how Europeans conquered the world because they drink animal milk.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 16d

Why is it every time the shit hits the fan these fragile white guys always assume it will end in a race war? I remember them screaming that shit during the Rodney King riots. Maybe because that's what they secretly want to happen.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 16d

Chasing this perspective is my life's goal

0x0@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 18d

Punching idiots like this in the face should be permittable by law as long as the glassholes glasses breaks

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 16d

Well at least assholes like him will speed up the process of banning these perv glasses. Silver linings, I suppose

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 17d

I wonder if Sikhs are ever warned ahead of time that they're entering a life full of catching strays

lemmysir@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 18d

Good.