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Before she took it over, it was dormant for two years. Prior to that, it was a Greek Macedonian Club.

It's annoying that the article doesn't provide this information.

Imagine being us, running a Lemmy instance. The government has directed us to take "reasonable steps" to prevent under-16's on the site (aussie.zone qualifies as social media according to the law).

They tell us we have to take steps to stop kids getting around the blocks. But provide zero guidance on how we are supposed to do that. You can write these words, but that does not make them reality. The truth of the matter is that no matter how many steps (reasonable or not) you take to try and prevent kids from getting on your site, the fact is you won't succeed with an automated/technology-based system.

They may as well tell us that only people with beards are allowed on the site. Or people who weigh under 100kg. Or any other useless metric that a simple video filter can beat.

I don't even need a campaign. If my local Colesworth gets AI facial recognition, I'll happily go to the next suburb. We're spoiled in Perth - between Aldi and Spud Shed, I can pretty-much avoid Colesworth if I like. Spud Shed is a bit of a hike, but I'd do it if my choices were that or a complete lack of privacy - particularly on the kids. These stores already know too much about me with their loyalty cards, that's a deal I make to save $10 every few weeks.

The AI stuff gives me nothing - and the kids can't really give consent to be surveiled.

The comic is great, but this is the single thing that will work. Unless we choose in large numbers to avoid stores with facial recognition, they will proceed with this. Someone has crunched some numbers somewhere and decided that ultimately we will put up with it. If enough decide not to (and it'd only require about a 10-15% drop in sales), they will decide the technology is not worth it.

This is the key bit here:

Alison Flett never imagined her live music venue would cause such conflict when it first opened in 2021.

This isn't a case where people moved to an area that had a live music venue and then started complaining. This is an established neighbourhood and the music venue came to them. Then:

"When the club shuts down in the early hours — or late at night, rather — you've got the antisocial aspects of people slamming car doors, people shouting, people urinating in the street, people leaving bottles, cans, et cetera ... "

He said it was taking a toll on himself and his neighbours.

"People wake up to mess in the morning ... People can't sleep — it stresses people out."

I mean, fair enough. Some club opened up the street from me and every night arseholes were making a lot of noise at 2am, waking the kids up. Finally, we wake up to a trashed street - yeah, I reckon I'd complain to the council, also.

I wonder whether you could get away with making a paper called 'Old Age'? If it was a proper broadsheet with all the good stuff, I reckon it'd go well. 😀

I really, really miss the donut van at Preston Markets.
(He's still there, I'm not).

Most of them got away with it (died before facing justice).
Tragically, an awful lot of their victims have also died from things like suicide and overdoses etc.

Before we get too complacent that this is a blight only within one flavour of Christianity, it's important to remember we had a whole royal commission into institutional child abuse that found this happening everywhere where adults had access to children. Parents are better today at being wary around who they leave their kids alone with.

And these are just institutionalised instances. It is/was more prevalent that abuse would be from a family member/friend.

Cameras that I see as worse than the glasses already exist. Just google "spy camera" and you'll see lots of options that come in all sizes and shapes. Cameras integrated into caps you wear, cameras disguised as pens or clocks, cameras about 1cm wide that can be hidden just about anywhere in a room, others you wear around your neck as a necklace, the list is endless. Kmart sells a camera on their site that could easily be used for abusive purposes. Or it could be used to watch over and soothe a baby.

I see no point in being riled up by one style of camera being sold at one retailer. Do I want randoms filming my kids? No. Can I stop them? Also no. Unless we make a serious cultural change to our society, it's decades too late. The simple fact is that anyone can stand in a public place like a playground and film kids. They can do it secretly with a camera embedded into an item of clothing. They can do it blatantly with a giant television camera mounted on their shoulder. This is perfectly legal - you can't stop them. All you can do is remove your kids from that public place.

This sounds to me like classic Technophobia. We've already normalised body cams to the point where we are outraged when law enforcement isn't recording and the kids working at Woolies are wearing them. You can buy personal body cameras also on Amazon that look like tie pins/lapels and are far more subtle than these glasses.

It is not against the law to record someone in a public setting. If you are walking down the street, you will already be recorded by dozens of cameras. I don't see the controversy. If someone is recording you in your home against your will, they are already breaking the law.

The silly thing is I don't actually care enough about these glasses specifically to be seen as defending them. I would prefer not being recorded everywhere I went. But that ship sailed 40 years ago. Unless we are going to make CCTV, Dashcams, bodycams, hell even phone cameras illegal, we are stuck with a world where you can already expect to be on camera pretty-much wherever you go.

There are 50,000 different camera glasses on Amazon, no idea how many are on Temu etc. I have no idea why Kmart is being singled out.

These style of glasses are not going away.

Dashcam for cyclists - at least that was the thing that made me consider getting a pair.
The battery only lasts for about two hours of video recording though, so I didn't consider them very long.