Comment on I Hate My Friend: The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

• spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  people have the right to do things you personally disapprove of

  meanwhile, literally in the headline:

  Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

  no one is saying you don’t have “the right” to wear this Spyware Pendant in your one-party consent state.

  people are saying it’s creepy and you’re jumping in defending it with “well, technically, it’s not illegal, depending on state law”. you’re just completely missing the point entirely.

  this is like, if someone wrote an article about how people are annoyed by someone microwaving fish in the office cafeteria, you chimed in with “well they can simply quit and find a different job where people don’t microwave fish at the office”.

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    no one is saying you don't have "the right" to wear this

    Okay, we're in agreement then.

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    • spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yeah, no, we still disagree. I think you are missing the point completely, and continually.

      general protip: if the conversation is about some behavior being creepy or weird or against social mores, and you jump in talking about the legality of it, you are missing the point, and also contributing to the creepiness.

      for another example, upskirt photography was legal in the US until 2004 (at least at the federal level, state laws seem to have trickled in around the same timeframe)

      hop in a time machine back to 2000, and imagine there’s a digital camera that’s marketing itself as being very easy to attach to your shoe in order to take surreptitious upskirt photos.

      people say “wow that’s a fucking creepy product” and you jump in to say that technically it’s not illegal, and people have the right to attach cameras to their shoes. and if a woman is wearing a skirt in a crowd of people, and sees a guy with a camera on his shoe, she has the right to walk away from him. that is technically true, and also completely misses the actual point.

      if you think upskirt photos are a bad analogy, here’s a reddit thread from 2 weeks ago about a gynecologist wearing the “Meta Ray-Ban” sunglasses that have a built-in camera.

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      • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yeah, no, we still disagree.

        Okay, then, we're in disagreement. But I'm still able to use it, so.

        Call it creepy if you want, that's fine, that's your opinion. It's not infringing anyone's rights.

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• Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, that comment is pointless regardless. Of course people can do things I don’t like. That was never in question. That does not mean they are free from consequences or societal repercussions.

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