john miller

consequence is our need in times like this

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@johncardillo this is far from the first or the only technological tool police have access to that could be abused, but strangely these newfound concerns about "abuse" are only focused on this one

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@ErinMondays @data_atx not all DCs are giant hyperscale DCs from Amazon or Google, plenty of companies own datacenters for themselves, often inside office buildings etc

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@CharlesFLehman yup. my county, Williamson County TX, has flock cameras and prosecutes criminals.

down south in Austin, often doesn't prosecute criminals and they don't have flock cameras.

these policies largely go hand in hand. what city wants tools to arrest criminals then let them go?

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@whipgenie @JackPosobiec I never saw a single person discussing them negatively until that article dropped on left-wing social media about how ICE could use them for deportations. that is 100% what triggered and continues to drive all this.

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@Davidposted @HanShawnity we literally had them during both COVID and the most authoritarian presidency in American history, 2021-2025. they're not going to refrain from tyranny in the future because we stopped using license plate readers to catch criminals lol

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@Pack_Rat_EWaste @AustinJustice then that's called being an easy mark

this entire "controversy" came from reports about ICE using Flock cameras to assist with deportations. there was zero concern about them from any side before that article came out

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@Bazkin @CharlesFLehman the post you're replying to shows the former group working to get rid of ALPRs, which literally began because they feared their potential to assist with deportations

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@CBHeresy no, because they're literally license plate readers and they can't do those things. c'mon.

but also that already DID happen during covid with other tools. question is just if we ALSO use tech to fight actual crime

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@LearnParty1 @aaron_renn cool let's just let the actual criminals run wild then, that's been working great!

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@aaron_renn another instance where areas with wise leaders can clean up with gains from the foolishness of other areas

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@xwanyex one basic moral metric is like "would you steal or kill if you could get away with it" and I'm not at all convinced society is moving in a positive direction on that metric

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@9mmsmg https://t.co/7aFPEJjmGb

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@drantbradley I always asked about DEI in Silicon Valley: when has "diversity" been achieved in a SV company? Are we supposed to match CA's demographics? The US? The world? Those are all wildly different targets

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@downi75 at least with modern technology, smart kids who want to learn but are failed by modern schools have options to do so

you want to shut down peoples' ability to communicate outside of the mainstream media?

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@Kelly202019 @conservmillen @LexLiberty76 no evidence she was, strong evidence she wasn't. but more importantly, "zero percent chance" as a standard would mean no one could ever be convicted of any crime.

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@muh_xitter_name @travis4nh what do you think cloud providers do lol

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@ThomBrady5 people are making too much out of national party fundraising, which is relatively insignificant. Dems are bringing in tons of money to other organs

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@xwanyex it was exactly this with COVID. "we're not taking it seriously"

we shut down society for months. we've taken few things in my LIFE that seriously. we took it extremely seriously, your ideas just didn't work because you were wrong

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@SteveZizek @johnddavidson hyperscale datacenters have existed for literally decades at this point, let alone datacenters in general

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@ThomBrady5 @TheAdamWaite that is not the metric investors use, and it's their money, not the government's. economic growth creates jobs, even when the growth doesn't directly employ anyone