Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
  • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
    5 hours

    By there not being enough consequences for these boys, not only are you making more boys like this, but not doing those boys any favours either. No one mentally healthy is going to want to be with that kind of boy.

    Weak parents. Weak schools. Weak government. Failing everyone.

  • cloudshouter@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8 hours

    From the opening part of the article, the problem is not just the glasses. The glasses are definitely an issue that needs to be sorted out society wide, but there is a problem with how these boys are raised. Badly raised boys have always been an issue but now they are being raised by manosphere incel influencers. The glasses just let them record their harassment to post for clout and to draw others into their bullying.

  • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    Good for the girls, they’ll know which boys to stay away from!

  • deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish
    9 hours

    Teen Boys Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in Very Public and Easily Tracable Ways and Still No One is Stopping Them

      • Echolynx@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6 hours

        Yes but starting with an age limitation is a start on these damn things.

      • Echolynx@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4 hours

        When it breaks laws. My area has two-party consent laws, so recording someone, whether audio or video, without their explicit consent is against the law. Children are often not held to the fullest extent of the law, and if they cannot be held responsible, then they shouldn’t have access to such devices until they can be.

        I’m not naive to think that these devices will just go away or that the genie can go back into the bottle. But that is where regulation must act to protect people’s privacy rights.

  • nednobbins@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15 hours

    Can someone explain why this isn’t actually a solution to an old problem? We used to have issues with various forms of harassment that were not addressed because they relied on unreliable testimony. Now we actually have people creating hard evidence of their actions.

    The behaviors described in this article are banned in every school I or my children have ever attended. How difficult would it be for the parents of any of these victims to hire a lawyer to absolutely wipe the floor with these people? Don’t these videos basically put the perpetrators heads on silver platters?

    • Echolynx@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6 hours

      You assume that action will actually be taken on the perpetrators here.

    • Dingo_Kidneys@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12 hours

      Crime usually comes before punishment. Right now the system is working it’s way into figuring out how to deal with this new social dynamic. Like you, I think it’s pretty straightforward. We won’t solve the core reason for the bullying dynamics though. I think humans that adhere to gendered thinking will be behind on that for a good long while yet.

  • heartSagan5@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8 hours

    Did we not learn from those X-ray goggle ads in the 50s? Boys are pervs and any toy that achieves it will get whatever adolescent/pre-adolescent boys can summon.

    Actually, Zuck learned to exploit this craving. Sick fuck.

  • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5 hours

    If I saw them I would call the police. Especially if there are kids around. No 4th amendment here and no local police departments that can easily be bought off. The police might not find something incriminating every time.

  • Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20 hours

    I guarantee most of these schools protect the bullies and punish the victims. Like if a girl being harassed broke the glasses, she would get expelled. The world is the way it is because people enable and worship bullies across the board.

    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15 hours

      Schools don’t care about bullying or sexual harassment as long as it doesn’t look bad on them. If it can be swept under the rug, they will ignore it.

      At least that is my experience from schools in the UK.

    • innermachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19 hours

      This. My friend in HS went to guidance multiple times to complain about being bullied by another classmate. After the 2nd or 3rd time requesting thy switch his class, they decided to resolve the issue by forcing them to be partners for an assignment in class. He complained again, and was told to deal with it. One day my friend finally cracked and broke the bully’s nose because he had enough and clearly the school was only willing to make this worse, so they called the police on my friend. It’s pretty insane how some things get dealt with sometimes.

      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
        15 hours

        I wish they called the police when I stood up for myself. It was sexual harassment/assault but I didn’t know that at the time, I just knew I didn’t like it so used violence. He stopped and ran off bleeding all over the place.

        Totally valid self defence from a legal perspective. But they only used the threat of calling the police and I was absolutely terrified so just shut down.

    • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
      18 hours

      In a different video, the same boy films another upset girl approaching him with a metal stool in her hands. An adult intervenes before anyone is hurt.

      Exactly, they always protect the bullies.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8 hours

        Humans suck at looking at things on a long timeline. “Sticks and stones”. You don’t usually see the effects of years of bullying until adulthood. Or at least not immediately. A TBI, that’ll get you fucking sued. Emotional trauma? What’s that?

        Fuck they still try to blame school shootings on videogames and now tiktok.

  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
    15 hours

    Yeah no shit letting people go around with concealed recording equipment is resulting in problems. Especially in a fucking school!

    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 hours

      So the same bullying that always happens is now visible and that’s the core problem people see. The glasses, not the bullies wearing them or the bullying recorded. Watch teachers and schools fight the recording, that make evidence fall right into their laps, so they can go back to ignoring bullying in their schools and then act shocked when serious fights, or worse happen.

      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
        6 hours

        Actually a good point, the bullying and sexual harassment was always there with or without the glasses.

        The glasses give them a new option for harassment, but it happens either way.