📸❗️ Flock supporters often say that "if you're doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about." But this argument is absurd—and it's not new.
Here's journalist Glenn Greenwald in 2014 eviscerating this pro-surveillance propaganda:
Today, we have been at War with Iran for SIX MONTHS.
The 1973 War Powers Act required Trump to withdraw forces within 90 days absent authorization from Congress.
They ridiculously claimed to stop the war & restart new hostilities @ 91 days.
We are past 180 days. End the War.
I wasn't familiar with any of these scandals that I ended up covering at CBS News until they assigned me to investigate some medical-related stories including the planned re-start of the smallpox vaccine after 9/11.
At the time, it wasn't controversial to explore medical risks. In fact, back then, it would have been odd and unjournalistic to turn a blind eye to it (like so many do now).
I never dreamed I would learn what I did about the medical establishment and federal agencies misleading us on so many levels in ways the injured and killed people.
And after many of us began heavily covering these issues, the industry/establishment successfully gained near total influence and control over the media and other forms of information dissemination.
Taken together, it's probably the biggest story of a career.
Reminder: tomorrow is our 4th Annual Diss a Short Seller Day! 😁
Participate at your own peril: According to the native Artificial Idiot:
⚠️"Topics like short selling reform or market structure can sometimes receive reduced amplification in 'For You' feeds or search rankings due to advertiser sensitivity or broad 'controversial finance' categorization".⚠️
Disclaimer: participants do so with full understanding that what one is doing may be dangerous and that one is responsible for one's own safety.
A Kentucky officer ran 2,048 Flock camera searches to track the mother of his child. No warrant. No probable cause. No judge ever saw it.
The Fourth Amendment protects Americans against unreasonable searches, and retracing where someone drove for five months is a search. And it’s why I take issue with surveillance networks like Flock.
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