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points by BoxwoodSeed 3 days ago | 0 comments

Historically it was an easy step going from "these people are not real" to "these people are now dead".

What does this mean? Flock CEO will start... killing people?

He already has been. Flock cameras routinely draw the police into situations where they're not need and cause shootings/high speed chases that end in dead bodies.

[–] natebc 3 days ago

In yesterday's video from Benn Jordan [0] there was a Flock employee that told 911 multiple times "I'm not sure if they are armed." when reporting that a few people were filming from the perimeter of a Flock office building in Georgia.

He also said several times that "we're under lockdown here."

/shrug Seems like he was certainly trying to cause some form of harm.

Flock sucks.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP5GDiLZ1Nw

https://youtu.be/OP5GDiLZ1Nw?t=1130 if you want a timestamp.

[–] alterom 3 days ago

>What does this mean? Flock CEO will start... killing people?

No, he'll merely facilitate that, at scale.

IBM technically didn't kill any Jews too in WW2[1].

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.hig...

[–] vkou 3 days ago

Do you think he will shut down LEO access to its systems if the government decides to have a purge of the undesirables, or two?

[–] ted_bunny 3 days ago

SWATting, but with a lot more resources

[–] buildsjets 3 days ago

If it generates profit, yes.

[–] red-iron-pine 2 days ago

they'll sure be on board when it happens. helping make it happen.

[–] lawn 3 days ago

Many of the Nazis didn't kill people themselves, they just helped in the process.

[–] Zigurd 3 days ago

The typical citizen soldier wasn't capable of atrocities, which is why they had the special selected einsatzgruppen. ICE rhymes with that word.

[–] nilamo 3 days ago

More like another reason for cops to mow down protesters. True Citizens would never protest something so obviously beneficial to everyone /s

[–] customguy 3 days ago

It's everywhere though. Not to detract from the massive problem of mass surveillance, but just recently when that data center in Russia got, and those derpy images of "stats about Russian" bots were circulated, I saw a lot of "the right-wing support is not organic" stuff.

Something is driving people into bubbles so they only talk about the other, never with. And both agree that "centrists", "normies", etc. are the most despicable of all. Seems like a recipe for something.

[–] datsci_est_2015 3 days ago

Idk seems like a lot of cross-aisle discussion happens in this forum. The tech world in general is somewhat a clash of cultures across the spectrum from anarchists to neofeudalists.

In fact, just look at this thread…

[–] twodave 3 days ago

My experience has been more talking past each other and being downvoted. Which is why I rarely engage anymore.