{"id":709453,"date":"2026-07-24T20:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709453\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:40:12","slug":"meta-glasses-banned-by-comic-con-promoter-after-secret-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709453\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta glasses banned by Comic-Con promoter after &#8216;secret filming&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Monopoly Events run scores of conventions, including Comic-Cons in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and the north east of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also organise specialised events dedicated to the likes of professional wrestling, horror and anime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-merseyside-68614914\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">featuring celebrity guests<\/a> from across the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcement has been met with mixed views by fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some praised the decision, saying they had no desire to be &#8220;plastered all over some drab blogging YouTube page&#8221;, with others saying they did not like the possibility of children being filmed by people they did not know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One fan wrote: &#8220;It&#8217;s one thing walking around with your phone, which someone could see and ask you not to film them, but your glasses aren&#8217;t as obvious.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monopoly Events run scores of conventions, including Comic-Cons in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and the north east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}