Flock cameras and the surveillance state generally speaking make me feel like a slave.
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At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
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#12"At least 25 cameras have been destroyed". Sounds like a mere drop in the bucket.
The author wants them smashed. The point of the article is to attempt to normalize and provide justification for the behavior, so that more people feel OK doing it.
From TFA:
> Reddit threads show near-universal support.
If your barometer for actual support is Reddit sentiment, I've got news for you...
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#13I've always said we should build an open-source flock that makes all data available for free to anyone, in a ploy to get proper regulations passed. But they'd probably just make it illegal to track police/government cars then break down your door and arrest you for tracking unmarked ICE agent vehicles
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#16"At least 25 cameras have been destroyed". Sounds like a mere drop in the bucket.
The author wants them smashed. The point of the article is to attempt to normalize and provide justification for the behavior, so that more people feel OK doing it.
I'm not going to suggest anyone break the law since I don't think it's worth risking jail time for this, and I'm certainly too much of a coward to do it myself, but it's also hard for me to condemn this.
ICE sort of feels like a militia with infinite funding and basically no oversight. This was already kind of true even before the latest presidential administration, but it has been ramped up to 11 in the last 1.5 years. I don't love the idea of a president effectively having his own "secret police" and people fighting back does seem kind of appropriate to me.
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#17Speed cameras and other surveillance state Trojan horses next please. Not just flock.
Speed cameras? I dont know, as long as people kill people with their vehicles, speed cameras are a tiny evil.
Speed cameras or not, what you described will always happen. I would prefer no evil instead of a tiny evil however.
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#18Flock cameras and the surveillance state generally speaking make me feel like a slave.
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> imho its a choice to feel like a slave.
Frankly, the reason I feel like a slave is that I have no agency over this perpetual surveillance.
If you're saying that the people breaking the law and smashing the cameras are choosing not to be slaves then fair enough, tbh. I guess I'm choosing to stay a slave :/
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#19Why smash them when you can harvest them. I’m sure they have components that can be sold.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The author wants them smashed. The point of the article is to attempt to normalize and provide justification for the behavior, so that more people feel OK doing it.
From TFA: > Reddit threads show near-universal support. If your barometer for actual support is Reddit sentiment, I've got news for you...
9 out if 10 paid astroturfers and bot accounts agree with me!