Flock also vehemently denies that their cameras are full of components and materials with a high resale value, and wants the public to stop treating them like catalytic converters.
I do not know much about flock cameras. Where are they installed? And why?
Networked security cameras that detect license plates, identifying features, etc. Sold to law enforcement, but also to home owners and businesses.
The data they collect is used by ICE to maximize their crimes against humanity.
I think your description is reasonable, however I'd argue that they are not security cameras. Rather a nationwide public surveillance network intended to circumvent the 4th amendment.
Flock doesn't secure people or property. They merely catalog the movements of people and vehicles for future law enforcement work, allowing both current location searches and comprehensive retrospective location history searches, all without warrants or court orders. Again, not picking on you here; just adding some color because while security camera is easy to understand, it also has a connotation that is quote different from what flock does.
The added depth is good. I gave a pretty thin tl;dr.
Face detection as well, and partnered with Amazon Ring.
We're not forcing Flock on anyone
When you call everyone a terrorist. No one is.
They're the point. Well one of the points. The other is things like the Patriot Act let them bypass laws to do otherwise illegal shit to terrorists.
Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter accusations has been the standard argumentative tactic of "the good guys" for generations.
White men really like to throw that word around.
I have wondered if one of those "10W blue flashlights" would damage a surveillance camera.
Not as much as a 9mm kinetic flashlight
a physical object seems more efficient.
I believe you'd need a laser of some strength, and these cameras would need to lack proper filters. I'm not saying it's not worth a shot. Just that I doubt it will be effective.
Honestly, I think the best option is a drone with a can of spray paint. Just make sure you mount the can in such a way that the downwash from the rotors doesn't throw off your aim.
Playing the old villain pretending to be the victim card. They learned that from Israel
The US’s capitalist class is the same people as Israel’s capitalist class. The two countries are essentially interchangeable with how they act on the world stage.
Except that US citizenship doesn’t include the universal healthcare, free college and $400 monthly payment per child until they are 18 that Israeli citizens enjoy at our expense
Neither does Israel for its subclasses (Palestinians). Those supporting and benefiting from imperialism and settler colonialism get the privileges, those being exploited do not. It's been that way for centuries. The way lines are drawn and legitimized changes, but the fundamental mechanism remains the same.
We're not forcing Flock on anyone.
Mate. Maybe a politician paid you to put in your spy equipment up everywhere, but the people did not. There is no opt out here. No one in the general public was asked for their consent to be tracked and monitored at all times in public. The average American is probably mostly or completely unaware of just how much they are being watched, tracked and remembered by your systems, and almost nobody would intentionally consent to such a thing. And for the people that are sharing information on what you are doing, how to avoid your surveillance network, and are rallying against it, you are calling them terroristic. So fuck off with your smug ass bullshit. You are a spy network working for the worst authoritarian interests of the state and capitalists against the American people. Your company should be dissolved and your cameras should be scrapped for parts.
A terrorist is when they don't like me
Point the cameras at pets. Problem solved?
Make the pets input stuff into AI. The AI then "helps" send data to FLOCk
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