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Wait til you find out what money does to people.
by gleezard 13d ago
Wait til you find out what money does to people.
- stickfigure 13d ago[flagged]
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- simpaticoder 13d agoI don't think that's true. The anti-flock sentiment ranges, of course, but it's pretty widespread. The idea of living in a society that is highly surveilled at all times, where that data is processed by AI to determine suspicious behavior, when the panopticon is abused by those with access to it -- this is not an idea with widespread appeal.
- functionmouse 13d agoIt seems like it comes down to whether or not you're addicted to Fox News. My grandmother likes Flock, but nobody else I know does.
- itsanaccount 13d agoHere in rural Michigan its bipartisan against flock. Sheriff rolled it out on Monday and ended the 90 day trial on Friday. Next weeks road commissioner meeting revoked the permit for em on the right of way. Which is to say our cops are pro-flock but they've gotten too much heat from them from a largely uneducated public. Meanwhile I've recently seen a rural Tennessee sheriff drop their contract when they found they were lied to about the data sharing.
- Avicebron 13d agoNot even remotely true. People loathe the surveillance state, it takes a special kind of evil to support a panopticon.
- HNhelpsFlock 13d ago[flagged]
- esalman 13d agoEven normies are anti-flock, along with lots of tech savvy people who care about privacy. These are dark days, but Flock and data centers are a couple of things that actually bring people together and take a united stand against something.
- esafak 13d agoYC strongholds like Knox County: https://www.wvlt.tv/2026/09/01/knox-county-commission-passes-emergency-ordinance-remove-flock-cameras-heres-what-happens-next/ https://www.wvlt.tv/2026/09/01/knox-county-commission-passes...
- Eufrat 13d agoBased on what evidence?
- arionhardison 13d agoThis is empirically false. re: https://www.npr.org/2026/08/22/nx-s1-5931446/flock-fallout-competitors-see-opportunity https://www.npr.org/2026/08/22/nx-s1-5931446/flock-fallout-c...
- Toorkit 13d agoI'd love to have some first hand experience.
- xattt 13d agoBack of the line, buddy!
- cristoperb 13d agoethnographies of the rich and the famous
- dudefeliciano 13d agoAnd this is the ideology that got us to where we are now. There is no problem with making money but bending politics/society to your will, and even voting for destructive parties, only for the good of personal interest is abhorrent, antisocial behavior. One would think that these "geniuses" would understand that living in a society where lower class people do not live with constant existential threats would be a positive for them too...but I guess they find it easier to be hated by everyone and be forced to hire bodyguards, private armies, and live in gated communities and bunkers in fear of getting in touch with the real world.
- Avicebron 13d agoI don't particularly agree with Ezra Klein or Francis Fukuyama, often vehemently disagree. But on the latest episode of Klein's NYT show it was interesting to hear Francis mention this coupling of wealth and political power being one of the core problems the US is grappling with. Separate the nouveau robber barons from political power like we did the clergy?
- rawgabbit 13d agoIn the United States, clergy never had formal political power. Religious movements did play major roles in the abolition of slavery and Prohibition of alcohol. The United States had campaign-finance laws to limit the political influence money can buy. The McCain–Feingold Act restricted “dark money”. The Supreme Court struck it down in Citizens United v. FEC.
- dasil003 13d agoI think he’s referring to the separation of church and state that was codified at the founding of the US based on experience of how things went in Europe prior to that
- Avicebron 13d agoIndeed. If you hold your duty to your net worth above your duty to civil society, you can't be trusted with civil society. To paraphrase Patrick Henry.