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Many people fear that a corrupt or authoritarian regime might misuse data to cause harm. However, the reality is that such regimes tend to carry out harmful actions regardless of the data they collect. Data can make their efforts more efficient, but the real danger lies in the regime's intent, not necessarily the data itself.

I disagree with this sentiment. Form factor has been the driving force behind the adoption of computing devices throughout history—look at the PC or the smartphone. Each one marked a new era. Glasses seem like the preeminent form factor for a computing device, short of a direct neural interface.

The smartphone enabled always-available computing. Glasses will enable always-on computing.

Crypto literally cannot be stopped, turned off, banned, or otherwise censored. That is its entire purpose and design.

Whether that is good or bad is a different question.

(Yes, crypto can be regulated. Of course it can. The point is that it will continue to exist irrespective of regulation.)

Moreover, Wikipedia relies heavily on news articles as sources. It goes without saying that news outlets are not well known for holding neutral positions.

Frankly, it needs to be in the very first sentence of the article. Acronyms Seriously Suck.

Meta only lost income and credibility from that scandal, unless you believe the data breach was conspiratorial.

No, dude. Conclusions cannot be made based on feelings. Where exactly is that step in the scientific method? It certainly doesn't sound like the rigorous skepticism that should be applied to what is observed.

I am appalled at the willingness to make huge logical leaps on the basis of emotions or morality in this thread.

At an even higher level, Apple and Google devices are what allow hateful and abusive content to be created. Should they bear some responsibility and prevent us from creating such content?

We've moved on to a different moral panic

Selling 20 million Quest 2 headsets is a pretty good outcome for the so-called Metaverse fiasco.

Let's not so eagerly prescribe the use of nascent technology.

That is plainly what they are trying to accomplish with VR.