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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

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Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

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This is cool and all but Ring is the vastly more important target.

I don't think we can pretend the definition of "public" didn't change, now that it means "something is likely recorded for all time and you have no control over where it goes and literally everyone in the world can see it."

Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

#72
post #66

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>"The real issue is prosecutors who refuse to incarcerate repeat offenders" Sure. US prosecutors are so lenient that the US is the capital of incarceration

This is literally true and you think you are being snarky but just look ignorant.

I can't tell which element(s) of the previous post you are criticizing.

Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

#73

I'm surprised the flock cameras aren't being disabled in a more subtle fashion. All it takes is a tiny drone with a stick attached, and at the end of that stick is a tiny sponge soaked with tempera paint. Drone goes 'boop' on the camera lens, and the entire system is disabled until an expensive technician drives out with a ladder and cleans the lens at non-trivial expense. A handful of enterprising activists could bl…

> All it takes is a tiny drone with a stick attached, and at the end of that stick is a tiny sponge soaked with tempera paint I (EDIT: hate) Flock Safety cameras. If someone did this in my town, I’d want them arrested. They’re muddying the moral clarity of the anti-Flock messaging, the ultimate goal in any protest. And if they’re willing to damage that property, I’m not convinced they understand why they shouldn’t da…

Oh please. Its tempera paint. It'll probably wash off in the next rain.

Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

#74
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The cameras aren't the problem, it's the companies behind them. Everybody wants murderers and rapists in jail, nobody wants to 24/7 share their location and upload their every thoughts to palantir and other companies operated by degenerates like Thiel

A significant number of people do not seem to want copper thieves, porch pirates, and organized retail thieves in jail.

If it requires constant public surveillance to catch them then yeah they can stay out of jail.

Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

#75
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post #25

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So you can do it without your image being captured by the camera?

The camera doesn't have a 360 field of vision, besides COVID masks aren't uncommon now.

If you want to hit the lens with the paintball gun, wouldn't you need to be in its field of vision?

Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

#76
post #47

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Oof, I really hate this automated enforcement. Might be time to get a paintball gun.

> Might be time to get a paintball gun Just wait until you find out that paintball guns are considered firearms are require licensing in the aforementioned region.

I played paintball in Australia and I just had to sign a normal waiver about them not being responsible for injuries

Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

#77
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The camera doesn't have a 360 field of vision, besides COVID masks aren't uncommon now.

If you want to hit the lens with the paintball gun, wouldn't you need to be in its field of vision?

It depends if its field of vision is 180° or 10°.

Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

#78

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> All it takes is a tiny drone with a stick attached, and at the end of that stick is a tiny sponge soaked with tempera paint I (EDIT: hate) Flock Safety cameras. If someone did this in my town, I’d want them arrested. They’re muddying the moral clarity of the anti-Flock messaging, the ultimate goal in any protest. And if they’re willing to damage that property, I’m not convinced they understand why they shouldn’t da…

> I haste Flock Safety cameras. Was this a typo? If not, what does "haste" mean in this context? (I'm not messing with you; I'm genuinely wondering.)

It was a typo. Fixed.

Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

#79
post #73

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> All it takes is a tiny drone with a stick attached, and at the end of that stick is a tiny sponge soaked with tempera paint I (EDIT: hate) Flock Safety cameras. If someone did this in my town, I’d want them arrested. They’re muddying the moral clarity of the anti-Flock messaging, the ultimate goal in any protest. And if they’re willing to damage that property, I’m not convinced they understand why they shouldn’t da…

Oh please. Its tempera paint. It'll probably wash off in the next rain.

> Its tempera paint. It'll probably wash off in the next rain

If they do it right. If they don’t, it doesn’t. And between the action and the next rain, Flock Safety gets to message about vandalism.

Re: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

#80

I'm surprised the flock cameras aren't being disabled in a more subtle fashion. All it takes is a tiny drone with a stick attached, and at the end of that stick is a tiny sponge soaked with tempera paint. Drone goes 'boop' on the camera lens, and the entire system is disabled until an expensive technician drives out with a ladder and cleans the lens at non-trivial expense. A handful of enterprising activists could bl…

The point of civil disobedience is to get arrested. That's what calls attention to the injustice of the thing being protested against.
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