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Like dashcams, Flock cameras are an enemy of leftist anarcho-tyranny. They don’t want criminals and illegals to be apprehended, and they convinced the stupider part of the right to militate against this mechanism of law and order.

The left saw how destructive dash cams, which initially they themselves championed, have been for their racial narrative. Now they’re trying to poison the word “camera” with connotations of a surveillance state so that the situations where their hoaxes are destroyed by footage never again arise. But even after seeing what happened with dash cams, some right-wingers are allowing themselves to be recruited into the anti-camera hysteria.

The explanation these clinical retards give is that when the Left wins an election, they will use Flock cameras to institute a surveillance state. This is a basic failure of logic because what allows Democrats to institute the surveillance state is not any physical object. It is their mindset. Cameras rob them of a pretext for rioting. They make it much harder for them to inflict a wave of criminality that is supposed to keep people beaten down and scared. It is not accidental that the anti-camera narrative arose precisely at the time when so-called teenage takeovers are terrorizing many cities.

11 responses to “Flock Cameras”

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    Anonymous

    Flock cameras for cities and blue hives, yes. Flocks out in the country or where neighbors keep track of each other, no.

    Body cams on Government stooges like police and academics yes. Private cams operated by individuals… Sure.

    We already have a surveillance state, the question now is how much of one, and who controls it.

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      methylethyl

      I know a couple rural places that could use them. Sibling lives off a stretch of rural highway with no streetlights. We’ve both, coming and going from that house, had similar encounters with a large 70s-80s model light-colored pickup tailgating very aggressively where there was no traffic and plenty of room to pass. It’s sort of a local phenomenon: lots of people have reported similar encounters, similar vehicle description, along that same stretch of highway, always after dark (I know, sounds like an urban legend setup doesn’t it?), several report actually being bumped or run off the road. There have been a few hit-and-run fatalities along that stretch with motorcycles and at least one compact car, where nobody was ever arrested or even tagged as a suspect. They just put out an “if anybody knows anything about…” bulletin and nothing happens. Local speculation is a vehicular serial killer who who’s made a sport of this, maybe lives in the next town over. A few strategic cameras could put an end to that right quick.

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    Demotrash

    When a Flock camera films my car driving down a public road, it’s a violation of my privacy and a violation of the fourth amendment. When Alexa eavesdrops on private, intimate conversations in my own home…it’s fine? That seems to be the logic of the Flocktivists.

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      Clarissa

      People ask AI to manage their love lives. They run their love lives on the apps. They exchange the most explicit photos. I think that cat has been out of the bag so long it died of old age.

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    methylethyl

    20 years ago I could’ve worked up some serious concern about it. I nodded along for a little while, listening to people say the exact same things about ‘right to privacy’ (ok but you’re on a public road) wrt red-light cameras. And then I realized: I’ve lived with red light cameras for years and never once been ticketed by one. Why is that? Oh, because I don’t run red lights. Turns out the OMG MY RIGHTS opposition was, as usual, just the low-self-restraint drivers who prefer to keep getting away with running red lights.

    Flock cameras are the next iteration of that. Yeah, I’d rather not live in a surveillance state. But I already carry a tracking device, 95% of everybody is walking around with a camera all the time and 99+% have got a live mic in their pockets, connected to wifi or a cell tower, and no way to guarantee it’s turned off. Everything I type on the internet is traceable back to me… yeah. All the credibility bux are spent already. It’s just the losers who want to keep driving like they’re on a closed course doing movie stunts, but on public roads with people who did not sign up for the stunt driving course.

    Opposition would be a lot more sympathetic if they weren’t broadcasting their surveillance state paranoia from their Android devices. On x.

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      Demotrash

      Also important to note that at least in major cities, Flock isn’t really being used for traffic enforcement. They’re trying to find serious criminals. And succeeding, it would seem. Many examples listed here:

      https://flockstopscrime.com/

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        Clarissa

        That’s exactly my point. There are clearly people who don’t want criminals to be jailed. We used to know that these people are called leftists. Then confusion settled in.

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        methylethyl

        They’ve been used to stop three kidnappings in progress in my state this year: one 13yo girl, a couple of little kids, and a woman nabbed by her psycho ex. Seems radically more effective than the amber alert system. Can’t say I’m against that.

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      Clarissa

      This is a great point. People who are so anti-tech could at least stay off social media, yet they clearly live there. I also agree completely on the other point. I have been driving for 12 years now and got no fines, no speeding tickets, no parking violations. My husband has been driving in America since 2003. Also, no fines, no tickets. So it’s hard to get very worked up about some camera filming me driving down the street. I mean, I willingly use Google Maps, so my routes are always tracked.

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    Anonymous

    I watched a video a few weeks ago where a woman was accused of stealing a package from a porch. They found her using data from flock cameras. She answered her door one day and an aggressive police officer informed her that she was being charged. They did have a poor quality video of the thief on the porch. She asked to see the video and the officer told her she could only see it if she admitted that she stole the package. I would be interested in knowing how much of her time and money was spent to prove her innocence. There is a 100% chance these cameras will be abused. She was completely innocent.

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      Clarissa

      I was once questioned by two FBI officers who suspected me of laundering money from Russia. That was either 2017 or 2018. The officers were not like the show on TV. They were complete morons. In the middle of the interview, one exclaimed, “Oh shit, we’re not recording this. I forgot the recorder in the car. Should I run back to get it?” Also, they asked me if my husband ever expressed any opinions about Putin.

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