The law won't save us from Meta's 'pervert glasses'. The only solution is mockery | Jonathan Liew

These things are undermining not just our public spaces but the very nature of being human.

Let’s shame them off the streets So far I am yet to be tempted into purchasing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

To a certain extent this is a function of possessing a large, misshapen and comically convex head upon which no pair of sunglasses has ever looked remotely appropriate.

Nor am I one of those consumers who professes to be “really into gadgets”, a preference I’ve always found weirdly unspecific.

It’s subtly telling when people claim to be into “gadgets”, because they’re never talking about, say, a tin opener.

What they really mean is something gimmicky and expensive that almost certainly requires the services of a datacentre and enough water to irrigate Kent.

And even if I were to surmount these two obstacles, you then get into the ethics of the thing.

I’m nobody’s idea of a PR expert, but if your shiny new product keeps requiring patches and updates to prevent people from using it to do degenerate things to women, perhaps it might be worth walking it back to the research and development stage.

Jonathan Liew is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...