Visually impaired people fear smart glasses backlash
bbc.com
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Thanks. This is a helpful tool. BBC blocking access to non-uk IP's is very annoying.
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Annoying but you'd probably do the same, you categorically cannot be funding the media you're consuming when you're visiting the BBC on a non-UK IP. The ad impressions don't cover it, and BBC Worldwide take a cut before the BBC proper receives anything anyway.
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The BBC proper doesn't receive anything from advertising, in fact. But that's because what most people think of as 'the BBC' actually isn't the BBC proper.
It is indeed the BBC proper (i.e. the corporation with the royal charter) that encompasses BBC News, which is the source of this article, as one of its divisions. But BBC News and the BBC proper are not the commercial organizations, i.e. BBC Studios and whatnot.
Inside the U.K., there are no advertisments on this or any BBC News article. Outwith the U.K., what people get is actually coming from a separate commercial company, BBC Global News Ltd..
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We need more stigma against those devices, not less.
But at the same time we need to make medical vision devices that are exempt from those bans because they give strong privacy protections to the passerbys.
thundercleezeBlind. The article is referring to blind and partly blind people. I'm visually impaired and thus I wear corrective lenses. This practice of [5 comments hidden]
YacobyJust wanting to point out that visual impairment is a scale. Very few people can't actually see anything, and so you are choosing your level[hidden]
Very few people can't actually see anything, and so you are choosing your level of visual impairment as 'not blind' but someone else's at 'blind'. Someone else may put that line in a different place.
Fitting something not binary to a binary scale is hard.
One thing that we can all agree on is that they have some issue with their sight, e.g. some visual impairment.
lirolero“Visually impaired” isn’t really a euphemism for “blind.” It’s a broader term that can include people with different degrees of vision loss,[hidden]
Also, wearing glasses doesn’t automatically make someone visually impaired. If your vision is fully corrected with glasses or contacts, you generally wouldn’t be considered visually impaired. The term usually refers to vision loss that remains even with the best available correction.
wavemodeI'm not sure I've ever heard of poor visual acuity (that can be corrected with lenses) being referred to as "visual impairment". Really, acu[hidden]
Really, acuity is a spectrum and almost nobody has perfect vision.
cyanydeezold people don't mind being lumped together.[hidden]