Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Post by lm28469 » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

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> This breakdown in rule of law is unfortunate. Doesn't breakdown in rule of law happened when a corporation (surely) bribed local officials to install insecure surveillance devices with zero concern for the community living near them?

How many homeowners install mystery-meat Chinese cameras on their houses that feed the data God knows where? Should their homes be vandalized too for their lack of concern for the community?

Post by dirasieb » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

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how did you jump from property damage and arson to speech? non sequitur much? financial damage absolutely can be violence, you can ruin someone's life if you take away their job by burning down the place they work at and it could lead to something horrific like them taking their own lives or not being able to pay for their medication or not be able to pay for their child's education, etc as a direct consequence of yo…

> how did you jump from property damage and arson to speech? I included speech as an example, the same as your bringing up property damage, arson, and financial damage. It seemed relevant given the general shape of what you were expressing. Someone being driven to suicide or unable to pay for medication is not an example of violence. It might be many things but violence is most certainly not one of them. > you cannot…

Post by cyberge99 » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 10:40 PM UTC

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What confuses me is that no revolution is required. All we had to do to avoid this was to vote. Voting would still (probably) work.

Not sure if you are aware but we rarely directly get to vote on these things. You vote for a representative and hope they vote in a way that serves your interests. But now, we have omnibus bills. And it's 50/50 loaded with things we want and things we don't. The same bill that funds Pre-K will also have a section to fund a kitten shredding machine. But if you vote against it all voters will hear is how you don't want…

Post by sodapopcan » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

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I've done this recently. It's only been six weeks so not sure if I'll keep it up, but I have felt very little pain. I put my sim back in my iPhone the other day when I needed an Uber to go to the vet after reading that recently taxis in my city have been denying people with pets even if you tell them you have one when ordering. Sim went right back in my flip phone when I got home and I actually experienced some relie…

Enjoy your portable physical SIM while you can, they are absolutely coming for it

Post by overfeed » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

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Ok, you do all that work at home and manage to block flock in your area. It doesn’t matter because the next city over where you work installed them so you get tracked anyway. Then 2 years later a new city council gets elected and they install flock cameras in your city too. You can never get rid of them because it already passed and nobody wants to relitigate the same thing every couple of years. Local politics does…

Our city voted out the cameras so the feds just installed flock cameras on every bit of federal property in and near town, plus they're at private places like hardware stores.