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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

That would be amazing, but I can't even consider there's a chance that it's anything more than performative. Maybe he genuinely wants that to happen, since he does seem to be one of the few US politicians actually against raping kids, but there's no way flock doesn't own a lot of the other politicians and have financial ties and data sharing contracts with bigger companies who own the rest of them.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago

And remove all of the installed ones...right? Right?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 points 18 hours ago

When the worst person you know has a good idea...

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

If it does get far enough to be introduced and to actual vote. I am guessing there will be a massive push by Flock to flood news outlets and lobbyists to how "successfully bad guys were caught" or otherwise "prevented." Probably lock-in on any instance(s) involving children being protected/found. With any and all misleading stats downplaying the actual levels of spying on literally everyone not doing anything illegal (or that children are being scanned and added to those growing databases). And the fucked up cases of false positives that drag those people into court, job losses from being accused/arrested, and financial losses from the first two.

[–] leftOverLife@lemmy.ml 5 points 17 hours ago

But what about the poor executives?!?!

/s

[–] A_be_seedy@beehaw.org 7 points 20 hours ago

I actually saw some praise on Flock today on Facebook. Youre probably right

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

What about Motorola and Axon cameras? They all need to go, no exceptions.

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This; anything else is just surveillance companies jockeying for contracts. Let's ban the thing that's bad, government's spying on their own citizens, please.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah, as much as I'd enjoy seeing bad things happen to their smarmy dipshit CEO, this is true.

I suppose a bill like this might help bring the issue to the attention of some number of people, at least.

[–] archy@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Aren’t most of them funded by local governments anyway?

(And then when the city councils or residents vote to stop it, the cops leave them up anyway?)

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago

federal bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock-style automated license plate reader cameras

This is so such local governments have other funding withdrawn until they get rid of the cameras, presumably

[–] hash@slrpnk.net 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

My local government had funds offered by a federal grant they didn't apply for. A neighboring county had applied for the federal grant, received a ton of money, and was dishing it out to police across the region.

Sounds like the police have too much money...

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Between this and local police working with ICE, it feels like a federal government takeover of everything. The sheriff of a neighboring county has his salary paid by ICE/DHS, and that isn't right. Federalized police departments.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This will never be passed because most of the people benefitting from Flock are the ones who vote on the bill.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

You think politicians like that them and their family member's every move is being tracked?

That puts them at risk

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They believe it will only be used against the plebs.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 8 hours ago

So let's show them that their greatest enemies have access to this data, and that the only way to keep themselves safe is to not collect it at all

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 4 points 18 hours ago

politicians like political donations.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Flock around and find out

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 8 points 1 day ago

One can hope

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 19 hours ago

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