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Who'd have thought that warrant-less mass surveillance that treats every citizen like a potential criminal would eventually hit a tipping point where people began to fight back against it?
What’s funny is someone at flock is likely seeing this as a business opportunity. “With flock+ we will detect downed cameras and send a technician out to replace them instantly. Subscribe now!”
Meanwhile, municipalities are less than thrilled about defending throwing money at something literally no taxpayer wants.
This problem might solve itself really. Let the buisness majors sell the hangman their own nooses.
Sadly some people do want flock cameras because they think it's worth it to have a better chance of catching criminals even if our personal liberties get taken away. It's the age old freedom vs safety discussion.
Maybe a year or so ago, but now those same people are starting to understand the definition of criminal is flexible.
Those who sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither
Along with it incorrectly labeling people as a criminal so cops harass innocent families
That's a feature, not a bug.
The whole point of warrantless mass surveillance where you collect a person's entire life history from birth to death is to be able to go back through that history at any point they become an inconvenient person, whether because they are protesting or are a whistleblower or anything else that endangers the existing power structures. They can and will use your history to fabricate a "reasonable" narrative to turn you into whatever type of criminal they claim you are.
This is exactly why they're pushing the "antifa is an organized terrorist organization" so hard.
And they wonder why people have anxiety disorders
No, they do not. It is by design, friend.
They don't care, they think you're weak. Show them you're not.
"You'd have anxiety too if you knew that entire government organizations were dedicated to watching your every move while everyone told you that you were crazy."
Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats.
... I died there. ... then the worms came Worms? They make me crazy!
I watched a video last night. Some guy was banned from a casino. All they had was a blurry surveillance camera photo of him.
The AI tagged some other guy as him. Cops came and arrested him. Said the man's ID must be fake, or he used a fake ID last time because there's no way their high-fallutin AI could be wrong! It was >99% certain!
Sounds like a blessing in disguise. Now he can't throw his money away.
Meanwhile, new age Glassholes Flock to their new Meta glasses.
That's because they want to be the ones doing the surveilling. There's loads of disgusting threads you can find online about them discussing ways to disable or hide that their devices are recording so they can surreptitiously record others while claiming they're not. Most often filming vulnerable women.