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The world just wasn't ready for glassholes. I remember those and thinking how alien someone's socialization would need to be to consider recording in strange pe

The world just wasn't ready for glassholes. I remember those and thinking how alien someone's socialization would need to be to consider recording in strange peoples faces to be appropriate, but now that we are just getting comfortable with totalitarianism, they can do their part and keep society safe from people with personal boundaries. Nobody is ever recorded in public to exonerate them. The idea someone could have an objection to carrying firearms as public aggression but not see how recording people is effectively brandishing with an implied threat is going to be one of those things we will look back and laugh at.

madrox 5y ago
Tell that to everyone who saw the George Floyd video. I watched an excellent interview with Khary Payton where my ideas on surveillance really changed. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZ1HCRqdB4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZ1HCRqdB4 I think socially there’s a difference at play between recording in general and headwear for it, specifically.
10x-dev 5y ago
I personally separate things into different categories. Weapons that can be used to kill me are in a different category from dogs that can bite me, from phones that can take pictures of me and from glasses that can film me. People will attempt to blur the lines between adjacent categories to argue their point, but you're going from the first straight to the last, skipping over everything in the middle. That's what I call 'a stretch'.
- motohagiography 5y ago
  I'd argue that's a false dichotomy. They are both expressions of unprovoked aggression. The difference is one has clear conseqeunces, the other is a vague threat of blackmail without an expiry. Low level violence and physicality used to snap people who exploited this latter nerd version back into moderation, but now terrible people have become sacred cows, and here we are.

madrox 5y ago

Tell that to everyone who saw the George Floyd video. I watched an excellent interview with Khary Payton where my ideas on surveillance really changed. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZ1HCRqdB4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZ1HCRqdB4 I think socially there’s a difference at play between recording in general and headwear for it, specifically.

10x-dev 5y ago

I personally separate things into different categories. Weapons that can be used to kill me are in a different category from dogs that can bite me, from phones that can take pictures of me and from glasses that can film me. People will attempt to blur the lines between adjacent categories to argue their point, but you're going from the first straight to the last, skipping over everything in the middle. That's what I call 'a stretch'.

motohagiography 5y ago
I'd argue that's a false dichotomy. They are both expressions of unprovoked aggression. The difference is one has clear conseqeunces, the other is a vague threat of blackmail without an expiry. Low level violence and physicality used to snap people who exploited this latter nerd version back into moderation, but now terrible people have become sacred cows, and here we are.