• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 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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      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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        11 hours ago

        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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        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.