• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

    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?

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      16 hours ago

      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.

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        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.

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          11 hours ago

          Maybe a year or so ago, but now those same people are starting to understand the definition of criminal is flexible.

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            9 hours ago

            I agree that the more popular opinion is changing to more freedom, but most of the older millennials and above that I talk to care more about catching criminals because they are more likely to be influenced by Facebook/Nextdoor posts and the mainstream media.

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        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.

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        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!

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        18 hours ago

        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.