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Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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Absolutely unacceptable behavior. Wild that Americans are so distracted by pointless social issues that they haven’t even realized the ruling elite are treating them like cattle. Absolutely pathetic.

The pointless social issues are manufactured specifically in order to distract Americans from the fact they are being treated like cattle.

And they/we absolutely love the distraction

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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post #7

Remember when Zuck called his fellow students at harvard who used facebook “Dumb fucks”? The US is accelerating into techno-authoritarianism, and all of these tech companies adopted “companies over countries” motto since the start, it’s not a surprise now.

it’s important to contextualize that quote: he called them dumbfucks specifically because they trusted him with their data.

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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post #9

Absolutely unacceptable behavior. Wild that Americans are so distracted by pointless social issues that they haven’t even realized the ruling elite are treating them like cattle. Absolutely pathetic.

The pointless social issues are manufactured specifically in order to distract Americans from the fact they are being treated like cattle.

Cattle is as Cattle does

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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post #12
post #7

Remember when Zuck called his fellow students at harvard who used facebook “Dumb fucks”? The US is accelerating into techno-authoritarianism, and all of these tech companies adopted “companies over countries” motto since the start, it’s not a surprise now.

it’s important to contextualize that quote: he called them dumbfucks specifically because they trusted him with their data.

it is fairly evident that contextualisation is paramount in objectively assessing a situation ... in the context of having god like power over billions , it seems entirely moot to debate the merits of why such a god like individual would label his subjects as idiots ...

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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post #11
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The pointless social issues are manufactured specifically in order to distract Americans from the fact they are being treated like cattle.

And they/we absolutely love the distraction

Because our educational system has been dismantled

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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Absolutely unacceptable behavior. Wild that Americans are so distracted by pointless social issues that they haven’t even realized the ruling elite are treating them like cattle. Absolutely pathetic.

> Wild that Americans are so distracted

There is a tonne of civic action against Flock, specifically, in the works, in many cases with successful results.

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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This is a Y Combinator company? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety dang/tomhow, does Y Combinator have a code of ethics that comes into play when one of your funding recipients does something unethical and/or illegal like this?

So these are the scumbags putting cameras in front of schools and sending tickets to people on Sundays. Thank you for making peoples lives materially WORSE.

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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If Flock truly believed that the domain name infringes on their trademark, they would file an ICANN UDRP complaint instead of Cloudflare and Hetzner abuse reports. But they don't, because the former would require them to perjure themselves, and the latter just requires them to lie to a hosting company.

I wonder if Flock + Cyble can be sued for fraud. There are 5 elements in a fraud:

  Misrepresentation of Fact
  Knowledge of Falsity
  Intent to Induce Reliance 
  Justifiable Reliance 
  Resulting Damages

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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This is a Y Combinator company? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety dang/tomhow, does Y Combinator have a code of ethics that comes into play when one of your funding recipients does something unethical and/or illegal like this?

So these are the scumbags putting cameras in front of schools and sending tickets to people on Sundays. Thank you for making peoples lives materially WORSE.

Speeding tickets are not related in any way to why Flock (YC S17)* is bad.

* how I will now always refer to them

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