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A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

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Re: A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

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If I made an app that showed their locations and gamified knocking them out (subtly), would that get me in legal trouble?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement#United_States

If done obliquely enough... e.g., just making a tracker and having the ability for people to report broken cameras, you're probably fine in theory. In practice, this is a litigious society, so you'd want to build this anonymously.

Re: A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what country did those things happen?

The United States, the first two in Texas and the latter in Minnesota. In that bit, an unarmed man was murdered, the killers scatter like roaches, the federal police is covering for them, while actively preventing the state from giving the guilty a fair trial and a swift sentencing and imprisonment. (What they did is a state crime with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, and also a federal crime that carries the…

> ... while actively preventing the state from giving the guilty a fair trial

Interesting.

Re: A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

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Being against mass-surveillance should be a bipartisan struggle. Given our political polarization, each side is highly distrustful about what "the other side" will do with mass amounts of data about their side. This should be a cause that unites everyone.

Re: A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The United States, the first two in Texas and the latter in Minnesota. In that bit, an unarmed man was murdered, the killers scatter like roaches, the federal police is covering for them, while actively preventing the state from giving the guilty a fair trial and a swift sentencing and imprisonment. (What they did is a state crime with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, and also a federal crime that carries the…

> ... while actively preventing the state from giving the guilty a fair trial Interesting.

Anyone with eyes can see that those killers are guilty. You don't need to split hairs on that, you can look at the video yourself.

As anyone else, though, they constitutionally deserve a fair trial where the onus is on the state to prove that guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, before they can be sentenced. My assessment of their guilt has little bearing on the state's ability to do that.

Proving that guilt would be trivial if the federal government weren't actively complicit, by preventing such a trial from taking place. There's no need to cover for it, it's behavior is unconscionable and treasonous.

Re: A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

#17

Why “republican” man? Editorials like this piss me off. Just say “Man from Florida”. Why bring party politics into an article that isn’t about party lines?

Ikr, "Florida man" already has a distinguished pedigree
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