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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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Post by carimura »

aliasxneo wrote: post #38
jubilee33 wrote: post #34

Why does it matter his political party? Many otherwise good people have fallen for a con of some sort at least once at some point it their life. The man has some time and uses it in a non destructive manner to do what he thinks will help his community rather than just posting nonsense online, that in itself is commendable . I find the article trying to forment division by naming him a Republican...who cares, human pr…

I'd wager it has something to do with this: https://www.cltampa.com/news/creative-loafing-tampa-bay-has-... .

nice. i just asked chatgpt for the lean and it said progressive so there ya go.

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

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Post by GlacierFox »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #29
codeddesign wrote: post #13

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?

Republicans are not on the side of liberty and privacy. So emphasizing that he's a republican makes the case even more strongly. You can argue that this shouldn't be about politics, but how many years of living under an authoritarian government do you need? Everything is about politics now.

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Post by biztos »

Aboutplants wrote: post #31

Curious if hoisting an Ipad on the end of his pool skimmer that just showed a video of random cars and their license plates, causing the camera to register a bunch of false positives?

That's a fun idea! I wonder if it'd work if you just used something like an e-Ink screen and had it generate random license plates?

I suppose "blocking the view of surveillance cameras" is probably illegal though.

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Post by jmspring »

ryandrake wrote: post #14

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.

Having binged on a bunch of modern British detective fiction in the last year or so - Rhys Dylan as an example. The reliance on cameras in society, yes it is fiction, but there is also truth is an interesting thing in terms of what a society accepts.

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Post by carimura »

i've said this before on Hn but I called the sheriff to discuss these in our neighborhood and asked if they could search for our whereabouts and he said "only if there's an active crime for your plate", so I said "what if the governor imposes a 'bird flu curfew'?" and after some kerfuffling said in theory yes they could then use it to track offendors.
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