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No it won't. (Source: got legislation for this, pretty good bead on who the stakeholders are). This is all Internet logic. It's fun to talk about destroying ca
by tptacek 6mo ago
No it won't. (Source: got legislation for this, pretty good bead on who the stakeholders are).
This is all Internet logic. It's fun to talk about destroying cameras as a vector for public policy, ergo, by the First Law of Message Boards, that must be a viable strategy. Reader, it is not. Nobody's going to blink at these costs, but residents who supported or were on the fence about the cameras are now negatively polarized against doing anything about them.
The cringe-ier thing here is the clear message being sent by many commentators, incl. the author of this post, that nobody's ever thought of breaking surveillance cameras before. Y'all, this is literally a meme.
- NDlurker 6mo agoWhat if we just zip tie bags over them while working on legislation?
- tptacek 6mo agoJust break the cameras. Nobody cares (I mean, local police will care, in that they will arrest you if they can, but that's about the extent of it.)
- NDlurker 6mo agoYes, local police would be my concern in this situation
- new_account_100 6mo agoThe Judge, the Justice System, and a potential prison sentence should factor into your concern in this situation.
- jessfyi 6mo ago[flagged]
- tptacek 6mo agoSure, keep calling me a cosplayer. I must be! It's a message board, and I disagree with you. What other explanation could there be? It's definitely not as if I've been talking incessantly about this since long before "deflock" was a thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927777 The search bar will avail for the rest of the story.
- jessfyi 6mo ago[flagged]
- tptacek 6mo agoI don't believe you knew any what I just posted, or you wouldn't have used "cosplayer" as your epithet. And why would I keep talking to you after that? You made it clear that wasn't productive, and that's fine: you and I simply never need to discuss this issue. We'll both be OK. The funny part of this is that you didn't even bother to hit the search bar; if you had, your "municipality still uses Flock" thing wouldn't have made any sense.
- RobLach 6mo agoThat makes sense.