🧵 Inside the Meeting Behind the “Hang Flock’s CEO” Remark
I think we’ve all heard by now about Sullivan County, Tennessee, Commissioner Joe Carr saying America could not be made “great again” without publicly “hanging” Flock’s CEO for treason. But I don’t think most people have seen the questioning that led up to it, the other comments made during the contentious commission meeting, or the sheriff’s account of crimes Flock had helped solve in the community.
Carr’s questioning of Flock Safety representative Alex Guth seemed less focused on understanding the technology than confirming an opposition he had already formed. He repeatedly called it a “surveillance dragnet” and brushed aside Guth’s answers.
Carr could have stated his ideological opposition, then pressed Guth to make the strongest possible case for Flock and its safeguards. Instead, when Guth said there was no federal “back door,” Carr responded that he simply didn’t believe him.
Carr represented the hardest-line opposition, but not every commissioner started where he did. Some wanted stronger guardrails while preserving access to a tool the sheriff’s office said was producing real results. A week later, however, the commission unanimously voted to let the county’s Flock contract die.
Sullivan County may become a cautionary tale about what happens when reflexive opposition to technology moves faster than the effort to understand, regulate, and responsibly use it.
@AppalachianPoet@HardyKeef@MurraySuggests True, after the dotcom bubble burst and the internet disappeared forever, everyone had to go back to writing files by hand, it took two decades to undo the damage caused by digital device's, good thing they're gone.
Watching rw feds try to justify Flock cameras by saying “you already carry a cell phone in your pocket with GPS!” is one of the dumbest and laziest psyops I’ve ever seen perpetrated on this app
Oh you don't want to live in a 24/7 surveillance state that will be controlled by the same people who just locked down the country over a bioweapon they created? Well then, you might be flockophobic
This guy is the intellectual standard bearer of the right? Boy we're in trouble.
@MrL1992103@TouhouEnjoyer_ This gets said every time new technology spreads, quality of life improves enormously and salaries explode as that new technology creates new markets and jobs elsewhere.
The state just wants third worlders to try to save our doomed welfare programs.
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Gee, I wonder why an investor in Flock who stands to profit enormously from the surveillance state would have a problem with Governor DeSantis' decision to remove Flock cameras from state roads. It's a real head scratcher!
The larpertarians have gone insane.
The fact we have so many "libertarians" complaining abt an arbitrary amount being "too much" rather than making any actual economical appeal is really disheartening.
the mind of a central planner is poison.
He is right btw, civil right laws hurt everyone by removing freedom of association and the right to self defense, watching my old home continue to deteriorate has been heartbreaking.
Urbanists need to accept reality and correct their first principles to align with it.
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@ArtemisConsort I am getting fatigued by this sudden influx of pro flock accounts.
We're not tolerating a CCP surveillance state here, if you don't like that, move to China.