WesternInfidels

@WesternInfidels@feddit.online · Joined ⁨Jan⁩ ⁨2026⁩

Replying to an earlier post

The company has partnered with 6,000 law enforcement agencies and 1,000 private customers, leading to terrifying false arrests and even crooked cops stalking innocent women.

How can we make people see that these problems were happening before anyone had heard of Flock? Flock is just amplifying the worst things about American policing.

Flock isn’t even the first system of surveillance cameras and ALPR cameras, they’re just the first with national-scale panopticon ambitions.

Replying to an earlier post

Hyperscale Data CEO William Horne told the residents directly in a special council meeting that the site is pivoting away from cryptocurrency operations towards AI computing and advanced robotics, and that it’s spending $100 million to achieve this.

Why would anyone outside the business give a shit about this? Why would the CEO think anyone outside the business gave a shit about this?

Why aren’t the datacenter owners ever willing to spend, say, $10 million on making the data center actually quiet instead?

Replying to an earlier post

The much more sensible approach is …

The fact that we’re discussing ways to sneak past the fascist border guards, by getting very lawyerly with a bunch of fiddly rules they don’t actually give a hoot about, is kind of a big hint that we’ve already lost our liberties to a degree we are reluctant to acknowledge.

This guy was singled out for his political opinions. Border patrol held him as a political prisoner, and when we read the story about him, we all see only too clearly that this could be any one of us.

As far as anyone knows, the CP thing was an excuse, a lie. The authoritarians aren’t following the rules, the rules exist to serve as excuses to hurt us. There isn’t going to be some magic combination of smartphone hygiene and “I know my rights” phrases that will let us escape targeting by the most corrupt cops in the country.