Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras | The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess.
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Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras
The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess.
At what point do we stop voting for the people putting up the flock cameras, and start voting for those that have comprehensive plans to address real issues?
That would take people actually learning who they vote for past a letter next to their name. It would also take things in place to stop people from just saying things and swapping sides.
When was the last time you saw a politician with a comprehensive plan for anything at all? It’s political suicide to have an actual platform anymore. I think it should be illegal to run for office without one frankly.
In some states (like mine), they shove these laws allowing access into omnibus must pass bills, and since representatives cant vote down on them, you basically would have to vote everyone out. Better ideas is to show up at every city and county meeting, with your community members and make such noise about it, that they have to do something about it so they can’t keep hiding behind under the counter deals.
Where I live, it was not voted on. They just showed up one day. They did have a city council meeting to discuss it, but they had it during 4th of july week–when most people in this small town are on vacation. I don’t think that was an accident.
Make city councilmembers scared again
I mean, we could do that, but maybe instead we should all jist vote based on the politics of some bull shit going on on the other side of the world or the need to stop like 10 trans people playing sportsball.
If you saw someone taking down a flock camera, no you didn’t.
And they didn’t see you help.
Halloween night will be wild this year.
We cheered for a vigilante who presumably shot a health insurance CEO to death, too.
No, the presumption is innocence.
He has admitted in court to doing it.
you realise people plea to things they didnt do every day, right?
Not killing someone they don’t.
Yes they do. A quick search would have spared you this particular, “living under a rock,” take.
Feel free to prove me wrong then. But admitting to a crime you didn’t commit isn’t something that happens regularly.
You just lowered the bar*, but the US DOJ routinely reports that up to 50% to 60% of people that take a plea deal are actually innocent upon further review of the actual evidence.
Plea deals are how about 90% of all cases in the US are settled, with the innocent accused pleading guilty to a crime they didn’t commit, so they get a better deal than a jury and judge will give them if they are found guilty.
Again, I am not going to give you more than crumbs. You can find all this data with a quick search.
*Lowered the bar in this case is equivalent to moving the goalposts in my favor.
Cool, how many of them took a plea deal for killing someone?
At least let those goalposts cool down a bit before moving them again.
I bet you think racism doesn’t exist either huh?
are you willingly or unwillingly stupid?
A local guy just got caught taking down a decoy camera that the cops set up to get whoever had been cutting down cameras in the area.
So they caught him, but the mayor seemed irritated about the decoy operation, which she wasn’t aware of. She wondered who paid for the camera, but it turned out to be a 3D print that one of the cops did at home. Aloarently city council were already debating removing the cameras, and the mayor seems to be on the negative side.
Anyway, whenever the story comes on the news, I vocally declare my support for the guy, to anyone who happens to be in the room.
Cutting these things down is fine and all, more power to you. In decently sized cities, they’ll just replace them and it becomes a game of whack-a-mole. Go to noalprs.com and sign up - look for a local group and show up to city hall. If your town isn’t on the map, create a group. There has been enormous success by pointing out the privacy risks, security failures, potential for abuse, 3rd party data collection, etc. When a contract is cancelled, ALL those cameras go down. Seriously, sign up and fight. Angry folks at town halls make change.
Yep, while being a vigilante and likely getting caught get’s headlines, the better action is use your legal rights, show up to city, county and state meetings and get them banned all together. Getting your representatives to answer to the people is the best course of action and always the most productive one long term for actual change.
Fuck right off with this title.
It’s anger against the goddamn fascist fucks watching the cameras.
Flockjacks=heros
I’d smash.
One of the few things everyone seems to agree on.
Practice your second amendment on a flock of cameras.
You’ll need to use your 5th.
I’m definitely cheering them on because I’m too chicken shit to do it myself.
You could go to city and county meetings and help get these things banned altogether. Legal and a much more effective way to do things.
I like that idea.
Then you should read @Kacerdias@pawb.social comment.
Not just Americans. I’d love for this company to die before they go global.
There’s one across the street that captures my home. I fantasize about taking it out in a number of creatively destructive methods.
You don’t need to destroy it. A black trash bag over the camera and/or solar panel and wrapped with tape will be sufficient.
Green laser?
Direct some of that ire at the employees who are supposed to work for We The People, but they did this to us, with sneaky means to avoid public knowledge, with our taxes. Seems against the alleged founding values.
Something is rotten,
They work for We The People,
But lie to us all