My stance is that there’s always going to be assholes. Trying to stop them ahead of time by banning technology won’t stop them but it will stop legitimate uses of said technology.
Regulations that would probably be fine:
Require recording lights.
Require shutter sounds.
…because those don’t halt the technology. They’re just mild annoyances for regular users. To me, that’s like “your car needs working headlights and tail lights.”
When I see people asking for “glasses + camera” to be outright banned my alarm bells go off. Both of these things already exist and there’s nothing stopping someone from strapping a cell phone or GoPro to their head. Banning such technology feels like burying your head in the sand because you saw someone doing something you don’t like with a technology you haven’t seen before.
I agree with you that technologies as such shouldn’t get banned and regulated instead. I just kinda lost faith in big tech to regulate itself or the US government for that matter 🤷🏼♂️ Instead of thinking “oh this could be bad for people” or “will this be ethical if we do it” they choose to defect first, make money with it, then pay a small lump sum fee from their profits and maybe change things, maybe. I think people are just tired of big tech companies doing whatever the hell they want, so they shout “ban it” outright
My stance is that there’s always going to be assholes. Trying to stop them ahead of time by banning technology won’t stop them but it will stop legitimate uses of said technology.
Regulations that would probably be fine:
…because those don’t halt the technology. They’re just mild annoyances for regular users. To me, that’s like “your car needs working headlights and tail lights.”
When I see people asking for “glasses + camera” to be outright banned my alarm bells go off. Both of these things already exist and there’s nothing stopping someone from strapping a cell phone or GoPro to their head. Banning such technology feels like burying your head in the sand because you saw someone doing something you don’t like with a technology you haven’t seen before.
I agree with you that technologies as such shouldn’t get banned and regulated instead. I just kinda lost faith in big tech to regulate itself or the US government for that matter 🤷🏼♂️ Instead of thinking “oh this could be bad for people” or “will this be ethical if we do it” they choose to defect first, make money with it, then pay a small lump sum fee from their profits and maybe change things, maybe. I think people are just tired of big tech companies doing whatever the hell they want, so they shout “ban it” outright