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AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America

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Re: AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America

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Flock is driving the following future:

"It’s a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of privacy even in public spaces to its inverse. Not only do we not have a right to privacy in public; we don’t even have a right to see ourselves as the government and police might see us — a set of still moments in place and time from which they, not us, can decide what our story is."

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-drove-300-miles-in-rur...

Re: AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America

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Flock is driving the following future: "It’s a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of privacy even in public spaces to its inverse. Not only do we not have a right to privacy in public; we don’t even have a right to see ourselves as the government and police might see us — a set of still moments in place and time from which they, not us, can decide what our story is." https://cardinalnews.org/2025/0…

Should be titled, "AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Privacy In America"

Re: AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America

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> In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S.

It'll fit right in with the fully self driving cars we'll get in "two years" since 2012, and the manned flights to mars we'll get in "five years" since 2015

American version of capitalism and Chinese versions of socialisme seem to slowly converge, the future will be fun!

Re: AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America

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Flock is driving the following future: "It’s a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of privacy even in public spaces to its inverse. Not only do we not have a right to privacy in public; we don’t even have a right to see ourselves as the government and police might see us — a set of still moments in place and time from which they, not us, can decide what our story is." https://cardinalnews.org/2025/0…

Our politics has gotten bizarre, I know Republicans are taking an anti-crime stance, but like isn’t also Republicans advocating for like diminished state capacity and a sovereign citizen type status?

January 6th, proud boys, the Malheur National Wildlife refuge occupation. Time for a multitude of Ruby Ridges I guess.

Re: AI startup Flock thinks it can eliminate all crime in America

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Even if true, it would only be for one of the narrowest possible definitions of "crime". What can Flock do about mail fraud? About domestic violence? About wage theft? About falsified studies that lead to substances being misclassified as harmless? About price fixing? Does the majority of criminal activity even take place in "public" spaces?
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