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<blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 8595396" data-attributes="member: 7028554">Jokes aside, a lot of the pushback was about secret and unauthorized recording. It's one thing to have someone whip out their phone and start filming you. That's pretty obvious, and easy enough to ask them to stop, and even, if you're a business and it's disruptive or threatening, kick them out. But if the camera is in their glasses and you have no way of knowing if or when it's on, the situation changes.But don't forget the cultural context, too. This was the very beginning of the pushback against techbros in the U.S., and Google Glasses were the ultimate techbro accessory (including the fact that they looked awful and had no utility other than surreptitious recording, so they were mainly a warped status symbol). And most of the violent incidents were in places like SF, where the tech giants were just starting to wreck the housing market, clog traffic with their weird fleets of private commuter buses, and generally change the culture in ways that locals found gross.Not saying it was cool when so-called Glassholes got their goofy eyewear snatched, but given how much worse things have gotten because of the techbro caste, I'm certainly not shedding any tears for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grendel_Khan, post: 8595396, member: 7028554"] Jokes aside, a lot of the pushback was about secret and unauthorized recording. It's one thing to have someone whip out their phone and start filming you. That's pretty obvious, and easy enough to ask them to stop, and even, if you're a business and it's disruptive or threatening, kick them out. But if the camera is in their glasses and you have no way of knowing if or when it's on, the situation changes. But don't forget the cultural context, too. This was the very beginning of the pushback against techbros in the U.S., and Google Glasses were the ultimate techbro accessory (including the fact that they looked awful and had no utility other than surreptitious recording, so they were mainly a warped status symbol). And most of the violent incidents were in places like SF, where the tech giants were just starting to wreck the housing market, clog traffic with their weird fleets of private commuter buses, and generally change the culture in ways that locals found gross. Not saying it was cool when so-called Glassholes got their goofy eyewear snatched, but given how much worse things have gotten because of the techbro caste, I'm certainly not shedding any tears for them. [/QUOTE]

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