• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    How to roll out nation-wide public cameras against the peoples interests?

    1. have a visible and clumsy company (Palantir) distract the public
    2. have a second company (Axon) quietly roll out hidden cameras
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      yes, thank you, fuck!

      I don’t know why people don’t seem to get this. It doesn’t matter if they are being lawful or not, fascists will shape the laws to achieve their own goals.

      The law has always been a tool used by the ruling class to subjugate the working class, it has never been moral. Hell, this isn’t even just fascism, its capitalism. Even in Canada, the RCMP were quite literally created to control indigenous people.

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      In another video of theirs they listened to a conference they were banned from by catching the wireless mics rf signals from outside the venue. That’s pretty bad ass

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    The irony, of course, is if you want to beat whatever charges they throw at you, you’ll also have to be filming yourself the entire time.

    The YouTubes are awash with auditors who set up a camera in a public place and have the cops make up all sorts of stories about them to fabricate or threaten an arrest.

    Check your state laws about filming private residences, though, that might get squirrely.

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      Because refusing to allow him to commit crimes would interfere with his ability to make money doing it.

      Like, just stop screaming and let it happen, you’ll like it, trust me.

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    I’m pretty sure my Yankee friends do not have to compromise whatsoever. Fuck this CEO. I hope you guys guillotine him.

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    This is the thing that I don’t get about the legality of this shit. If I set up a camera aimed at my neighbor’s driveway and intentionally logged every coming and going of he, his wife, his kids… I could justiably be charged with stalking. But so long as I set up a network of cameras and track my neighbor’s every whereabouts with this network and sell access to this data to anyone interested… that’s not stalking. That’s just good American business.

    That is without the added layer of law enforcement involvement, tax dollar support, and absolutely no public say in the matters, etc.

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    The history of the US is filled with “nah, capital can do what it wants”.

    Nothing will change while power is consolidated in the hands of the few.

    I do wonder about who works at flock. Surely they have options to resist and sabotage from the inside.

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      I do wonder about who works at flock. Surely they have options to resist and sabotage from the inside.

      I have to admit, the fact that their HQ is within commuting distance has crossed my mind.