@MagicalKitch We've been doing it for years. The only drawback is it makes us feel like it's ok to use "more" in the recipes :) We have to always have a bottle "aging"
@ChrisWhite_1972 I always have hope that maybe *this* DM will be some like minded individual and we'll become friends--so far, I've been wrong 100% of the time and it's pics or crypto or click my link spam
Flock cameras are just TSA, except everywhere.
It’s surveillance over actual security.
Sure, we could focus on actual threats, but targeting obvious threats would be mean, so instead we’re going to molest Grandma and ban you from bringing toothpaste on the plane. That way we can feel good about how non-discriminatory we are while accomplishing absolutely nothing and also wasting a metric buttload of money.
And if people object, we’ll accuse them of wanting another 9/11, because clearly an obese dropout with an IQ of 85 is the best possible last line of defense against terrorism.
Heaven forbid we address the actual problem—importing foreigners who hate us. So instead we are going to make airport security as stupid and expensive as humanly possible and then on top of that we’re going to illegally hoover up the electronic communications of everyone in America.
Flock is what would happen if we decided the best way to stop crime would be to get post-9/11 airport security drunk and then have it get bizzay and make a baby with COVID-era “contact tracing.”
It’s all so stupid it’s hard to believe it’s real.
@YALiberty We have to stop scapegoating one evil company & condemn all forms of mass surveillance
We’re already seeing places that ended contracts with flock go right to Axon for what’s arguably worse, cams put on existing public infrastructure that intentionally blends in with normal cams
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is making clear that damaging privately owned camera equipment belonging to Flock will result in criminal charges. The use of LPR cameras has not been deemed unlawful, nor has it been ruled unconstitutional. Flock has the same rights as any other victim of a crime. Whether a camera is active or deactivated, destroying someone else's property — whether owned by an individual or a corporation — is a crime.
Today, deputies arrested an individual in connection with damage to a camera at the intersection of Airport Road and Main Street in Destin that occurred on August 16. He is charged with felony criminal mischief and was booked into the Okaloosa County Jail.
A warrant is pending against a second individual for damage to a Flock camera.
Today, another camera was found damaged along Highway 90 near the Walton County line. This incident is under investigation.
AL OCSO Flock cameras were deactivated on September 1stand are no longer in operation; deactivation is unrelated to the ongoing criminal investigations.
Sheriff Eric Aden said, "People are free to disagree with the prior use of this technology. They're free to speak out against it. What they are not free to do is destroy someone else's property. We will investigate and pursue charges when there is probable cause for an arrest."
Below, I have collected every bad faith argument in favor of the surveillance state, handed out to influencers during this paid op, and why each one is retarded. I put my heart and soul into this. Please enjoy.
1.) “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”
•This is retarded because it continues to treat a nationwide, searchable movement log as harmless even after officers have used it to stalk ex-girlfriends and the system has produced armed stops of innocent drivers.
2.) “They only catch criminals and find stolen cars or missing kids”
•This is retarded because it ignores that the default is photographing every passing vehicle, not a targeted warrant, and that alerts have already sent police after the wrong people.
3.) “Cameras are already everywhere so Flock is no different”
•This is retarded because it pretends a privately operated, AI-searchable national network with inter-agency lookup that bypasses due process, is the same as a local traffic cam or your neighbor’s doorbell.
4.) “Cities own the data and Flock is just a vendor”
This is retarded because audits showed federal agencies searching local plate data and Flock toggling national lookup without cities knowing.
5.) “Audit logs and purpose fields prevent abuse”
This is retarded because it is offered as a complete answer after officers typed “investigation” and still ran plates of girlfriends, and after the company itself later added tools because the old ones failed. The “safeguards” are just mandatory discipline for making their tyranny look bad.
6.) “It’s just a snapshot at a fixed point, not tracking”
•This is retarded because it is the legal talking point even though the product stitches those snapshots into paths, heat maps, and person-level files. It is warrantless dragnet, and it’s been unconstitutional for 60 years.
7.) “Critics just want to defund the police or normalize lawlessness”
•This is retarded because it recasts bipartisan privacy pushback and contract cancellations as a partisan conspiracy instead of answering for the actual access and misuse record.
8.) “Retention is only a few days and we don’t sell data”
•This is retarded because the selling point of the product is a shared national lookup of those same records and any civilian can walk off the street and get a job with access to that data.
9.) “It doesn’t collect personally identifiable information”
•This is retarded because not only were plates matched to owners, but the company built tools to jump from LPR to person.
10.) “It isn’t a search because it doesn’t open your door”
•This is retarded because logging every car into a queryable database is the modern version of a general warrant: rummage first, invent a reason later, and the 4th amendment was the answer to general warrants.
11.) “Phones already track you so Flock is fine”
•This is retarded because the state building a warrantless dragnet is not excused by the existence of private, voluntary apps and contracts that you can refuse or self regulate.
“12.) “It’s constitutional because courts like ALPRs”
•This is retarded because warrantless dragnet is not constitutional.
13.) “Flock just helps catch real criminals”
•This is retarded because selling a total location archive as enforcement is how you launder a dragnet. It’s trading our essential liberty for temporary security without our consent.
14.) “Opponents are just being dramatic or paid to hate tech and America and missing kids.”
This is retarded because the coordinated “Flock op” of identical accounts is insisting a warrantless catalog of every vehicle is the same thing as voluntary cameras while appealing to emotion, and that is anti-American redcoat shit.
All we need is freedom to bring food prices down and profitability for the small farmer. It is that simple. We don't want to sell to Costco or Walmart national chains. We just want to sell direct into our communities.
Hey everyone! Give up your freedom and right to privacy because of this scary made up scenario I just described! Make all the important decisions in your life based on fear!
@SenRandPaul You’re not the boy who cried wolf.
You’re the official who keeps calling a press conference to announce that the wolf has been identified, named, and is currently being processed… while the wolf is still cashing checks and drinking champagne.
lol.
Prior to 1776, the Crown handed out general warrants and writs of assistance- papers that said, in effect: go rummage through whoever you want, wherever you want, until you find something useful.
That’s Flock’s dragnet method, ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS in 1965.