• Dzheyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 hours

    After the amount of doom and gloom videos I was watching today all about flock and police surveillance…this is nice. It’s a least a step in the left direction

    • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1 hour

      most people are generally not ok with being tracked and surveilled. It’s only the fact that they aren’t aware of how wide spread a given system is that lets these things grow.

      With computers, phones and the internet, the surveillance is not super visible, or the implications of it are not so visceral. People always have this idea that they can just choose not interact with it. So it’s much less prominent of a worry for most people.

      But with a networked camera in a public space recording everything, able to easily map every trip someone makes by car (which is basically all trips in much of America). That sets off alarm bells. That’s an immediate “what the fuck? Who said you could do that?” From most people.

      Flock was betting no one would notice, or that no one would care. They’re so chronically online, tech business brained, that they failed to understand that most people see a meaningful distinction between the internet and the real world. This was inevitable, and now it’s a huge boondoggle and their company is probably cooked long term.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        1 hour

        The tracking is also entirely unnecessary. People walk around with GPS enabled phones in their pockets the entire time you don’t need a separate CCTV camera network. At least with GPS enabled phones the only people who can track you with the government, but the cameras have been monitored by a corporation these days people tend to trust the government more than the corps, although it is a close run thing.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    I would love to eavesdrop on a meeting where they discuss how many cities/counties are cancelling contracts and how many cameras are mysteriously falling apart.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      Funnily enough with Axon they seem to surveil less than half as much as they did previously, giving the anti-flock movement an actual sense of accomplishment. If they continue to fight against Axon, the next vendor will be even smaller.

      But yeah they need to outlaw this anyway or it will keep creeping back.

      • Frozengyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        Not discounting the fight against this, but I’m guessing the next move is to make these less known to the public and in places that are harder to remove them.

      • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6 hours

        Flock off, mother flockers.

        Axon is here to mother your fucks!!!

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        5 hours

        If municipalities want to put the “Axon” surveillance cameras, I wouldn’t be opposed.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours

    Fuck yeah.

    And it’s only going to get worse as more people learn about it. I made a video a few weeks ago about a man in Virgina who (allegedly) cut down 13 of them.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      Yup, real impact. A couple dozen of the 6000 communities that use them…

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    Lets start a go fund me for free sawsalls and metal blades. Not to do anything bad, but to help people get into remodeling…

  • Gerudo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4 hours

    Where’s that Mamdani and Miss Rachel crying gif