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So the LA police have made an app that relies on voluntary contributions from free citizens to further their goals. There's no coercion here, people either cho
by lorddoig 13y ago
So the LA police have made an app that relies on voluntary contributions from free citizens to further their goals. There's no coercion here, people either choose to help the cops or not. But this article and the comments are critical in a manner congruent with the criticism levied at mass surveillance et al.
True freedom is not about keeping down the oppressors forever - that's just a power inversion. Freedom is about having choices, and there's no restriction of that here.
- vdaniuk 13y agoThank you for clarification. I don't agree but this is a philosophical discussion that depends on semantics too much. And I don't want to engage in that.
- lorddoig 13y agoDon't get me wrong I see at least as much bad coming from this as good, I just find directing anger at the technology to be illogical and think it'd be more lucrative to direct such emotions to the root issue here which is that the police as a concept is inherently problematic. Solving those problems solves this one for free, and prevents its reoccurrence to boot.