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Wait til you find out what money does to people.
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YC strongholds like Knox County: https://www.wvlt.tv/2026/09/01/knox-county-commission-passes...
Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
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The response is stronger because your hairdressers and baristas aren't actively providing a service for surveillance as part of their work. The bar should be higher for a company that's ostensibly being trusted to provide a law enforcement tool that's prone to misuse than for providing beverages or cosmetology.
>The response is stronger because your hairdressers and baristas aren't actively providing a service for surveillance as part of their work. Should other law enforcement contractors also be subject to the same higher standard? For instance, should dell get extra flak if one of their contractors called 911, because they were installing PCs for a police department? If not, this just seems like a way of applying a doubl…
Do you think Flock is in the same category of installing PCs for police departments, when it comes to public impact?
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Nope. Florida simply led the way and calmly banned Flock cameras from the entire state. Every other state that cares about individual liberty should follow suit.
I mean, let's not get carried away. Florida still has very oppressive anti-second-amendment legislation and laws on the books, and until they get rid of that, I wouldn't call them anywhere close to having individual liberty.
Florida has permit-less, constitutional open-carry. Not sure what more you could ask for from a 2A perspective.
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#124Privacy for me but not for thee - Flock
yea it is similar to robot mark zuckerburg who purchased everything near his house to protect privacy, but his app is the biggest privacy nightmares, especially rayban glasses.
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YC won’t invest unless you convince them you’re potentially $100B company. The scope is always the largest possible audience…
Well until there is solid evidence of them wanting a government mass surveillance apperatus, I'm not gonna grab a pitchfork. I've been on the internet too long to give credence to people who resort to conspiracy when data doesn't fit their desired narrative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683853#49684407
Founders own words
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I was literally not aware of this. I don't know if I'm going to be coming back to this site anymore. I've got some thinking to do. I am so ridiculously anti-Flock that I am not willing to discuss it, because it would be a pointless conversation.
I understand what you mean but I do not think the answer is to disengage. They will not stop. HN is an amazing place with brilliant people. I have been wrong so many times here and I own it; the amazing thing is the grace I have been shown, the support and all of the ways the community here has made me a better, more knowledgable person.
Re: Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
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#130I love a good taste-of-their-own-medicine story like anyone else, but the headline is false. It seems that this is about a YouTuber stalking a Flock employee's vehicle through traffic for 10-15 minutes, which is why the police were called.
That’s literally exactly what Flock does. I can’t find sympathy for the company on this.