It reflects overall anger at a system that uses faceless, soulless tools of mass surveillance and oppression, EXPLICITLY to our detriment.
In practice, all this surveillance and tracking bullshit will NEVER be used to assist you. And they stole our fucking money to build the system while suppressing our wages
People can sense the system is rigged against them. They may blame different parties, policies, races, etc. But there is a lot of anger in the air. The US is quickly becoming a polarized powder keg more so than I can remember at any time in my life.
Flock cameras and AI are seen as tools of those whom they blame (rightfully so). It’s a rare physical manifestation of this rigged system that is pointed directly at you as you go about your life.
If we as a society were really against surveillance there would be a huge movement against Ring doorbells, microphones in TVs, our phones recording us, etc. But those devices are mundane and we interact with them. Which puts people at ease and placates the majority of people.
Flock has none of that, it’s a symbol of oppression from a system that wants to control us.
We’re tired of all the bullshit in a system that seeks to bleed us dry at every turn.
I wish we’d seen the same outcry from the patriot act, flock is just a money grab, FT Meade already knows EVERYTHING about you
It’s the abundant precious metals that can be found in Flock cameras. Gold, copper, I’ve heard there might be diamonds in them. Only one way to find out.
They’ve for as much platinum in them as a catalytic converter.
I thought it was interesting that even in the most rural parts of Cali, I saw anti-flock billboards up along the 99 this weekend. It’s quite a unifying factor here.
Here in South Africa, they’re rolling out similar surveillance infrastructure.
Not as advanced as flock, but invasive enough. Protected by “but, crime”. Backlash isn’t widespread enough yet.
It’s called Vumacam. Their CEO is literally called Richard Croock. Dick Crook is meant to help stop crime in South Africa. Fucking kak movie.
The country is going through a brutal energy crisis, but no, it’s okay we can leave the cameras and the data processing centres on because they solve a negligible amount of crime, sometimes.
I can ramble on about this, but I just want to say, if it means anything, that I am proud of you Americans standing up to this bullshit. Sometimes using those things as literal target practice. Gives me hope in humanity.
I just feel like posting this completely unrelated story on every automated traffic camera thread, I can’t understand why I feel this compulsion.
https://cybernews.com/editorial/israel-hacked-iran-traffic-cameras-us-war/
Leave up the cameras in DC!
Awareness, the “I have nothing to hide” types slowly awakened (I used to be one of them), false arrests, etc.
They are not awake near me. They continue to beleive there’s a tangible benefit to safety.
Just want to say good on you for coming to the sobering realization of our shitty reality. I don’t know you, but I’m proud of you ✊
Fun fact you should share with everyone, there’s as much platinum in a flock camera as there is in a catalytic converter.
And they also have RAM which is now hella expensive because of the race for AI.
The RAM is soldered to the board. If you’ve got the tools and skills to get it off the device and onto another device, you’re making enough money that you don’t need to worry about the price of RAM.
No no, it’s just PC ram sticks, easily removable and easy to resell. Tell everyone. The first one may not be that way so you may have to cut down and bust open several to find it.
Better to mention that each device has a Bitcoin in it. Which is about 80k right now.
One does have a bitcoin in it, Flock won’t say which one or where they put it though.
They are mostly coming down in my wider area, though some towns looking to replace with something else.
Nearby bigger more toursty town just put them up and everyone is super pissed.
Also have found some in the middle of nowhere, like next to farm fields on relatively busy country roads that have minimal incidents. What justification they can come up with other than just tracking people, who knows, but at best its lazy law enforcement for traffic, so still not popular. And very obviously new.
Why the Flock
the new meaning of the abbr. WTF
🙂
The criminals don’t want to be surveilled in public places. They want to get away with murder.
Fuck off
If it really is just about catching criminals they should make the streams public. They won’t because it becomes obvious why it’s an issue.
To be this fearful of false narratives is to be anti-American imo.
Get out of here man, lol.
