5mo ago

Company creates "solution" to address school "vaping incidents".

Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should've looked into posting this in a different community.. It's closer to a silly "innovation".. soo.. is this considered FUD? I also don't support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had "privacy-violating" before the "solution".

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i dont see how this is a violation of anyones privacy and trying to get kids to not get addicted to drugs is a pretty fucking good cause.
- Assuming this is just a sensor for air quality tuned to this use case, I would probably have to agree. So long as it isn’t tracking specific students or taking photos, this is about as privacy invansize as the motion detector that opens automatic doors… or any old carbon monoxide or other detector which are used to legit protect public safety, just as preventing children from the claws of the tobacco industry.
- Lemmy generally has a pro-drugs sentiment, which is certainly unsettling.
  Also, can I visit bathrooms and not get into clouds of vape smoke, pretty please?
  
  i mean im all for letting people approach drugs as they please but, someone smoking weed once in a while with some frinds is not the same as massive corporations flooding media as specifically media for children with propaganda to get them addicted to nicotine. Being pro that isnt so much being pro drug as its being a corporate bootlicker and downright irresponsible.
  
  Also true
- I don't know what's with the downvotes, you're pretty spot on. Some people are too privacy-oriented on this sub
- Addicted to drugs!? We're talking about vaping here. Don't strain your hand clutching those pearls.
  
  Nicotine is no better of a drug than many others you probably wouldn't want kids taking. Just because it's a vape doesn't mean it's not incredibly addictive.
  
  Doesn't make anyone sound like less of a square calling it a drug.
  
  Is nicotine not a drug?
  
  I'm not going to argue that nicotine is not technically a drug. But I still think you sound like a square in calling it one.
  
  And? Why does that matter?
  
  So, it is a drug, but it's not right to call it one?
  
  Nicotine is a drug.
  Alcohol too, btw.
  
  Power is the best drug.
  
  dude never heard about nicotine thats crazy.

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