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Sensing He's in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It's All Been a Big Misunderstanding
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/44082154
futurism.com/future-society/flock-safety-ceo-big-misunderstandingThe 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.
What’s your point?
There is this recurring theme of comments I keep seeing. “If you think this is bad, well it’s nothing new, you should know what’s been going on the whole time!”.
The reaction they should have is “I’m glad this is finally getting attention!”
I see it more as “This is a symptom of greater problems, we need to attack the root cause and not just react to the surface level stuff that’s most obvious”
Why not both?
Sure attack the real cause. That’s the real work, the hard work, it takes time but is the only lasting solution.
But let’s not make it EASY for them! Take out the Flock cameras everywhere every time they’re spotted, and fight new installations before they happen. Make it clear that public opinion is against them, that they’re anti-safety implements that erode civil society and abolishing them should be the first step in reclaiming the basic rights of humanity, such as privacy and bodily autonomy.
I’d even go a step further and say that only because of Flock’s good auditing, those cases were revealed. Which means at the same time, that in the past, police officers were doing the same, just hidden.
Kinda like a “don’t shoot the messenger” situation.