absolutely yes, the sooner the better
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this framing is so stupid to me
An East Tennessee county commissioner sparked controversy after suggesting during a public workshop that Flock CEO Garret Langley should be hanged for treason.
Excuse me? The real controversy is the nation-wide surveillance network used to track everyone's movements. The commissioner's response seems to be very measured in light of that fact.
Even right wingers like this dude don’t want authoritarian surveillance bs
There's long been a hypocrisy with the right where they're all about civil liberties and privacy for themselves and authoritarian surveillance for everyone else.
Its not hypocrisy if you dont view most people as human beings.
Honestly, I have the impression that only death and high taxes can fix the problems we have with our overlords.
Good, let's hang him. Town square, all that dumb old town shit dumb ass conservatives miss despite never having.
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I mean jail for everyone involved in this "illegal national spy program" makes more sense (because we're not barbarians, mostly) but if people go the rope-tree-traitor route i would say they probably want me on their jury.
There's a prison nearby.
There are not flock cameras outside the prison or anywhere near it.
That should tell you everything you need to know.
For fucks sake... don't scapegoat this 1 person.
Every township, every county, and every state government is enabling it. Flock just doesn't go around putting up cameras for charity. They are doing it because your governments are paying them for it.
I mean, I'm fine with hanging everyone involved i that's your point.
Don't scapegoat them, but also don't let them off the hook. Don't let them feel too comfortable about being openly evil. People being comfortable about being openly evil is how bad things happen.
Not wrong you know
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A lot of CEOs should be hanged.
I concur
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There's actually a lot of political solidarity about mass surveillance. Go to the grimiest YouTube comment section and you'll see the same kind of vitriol against Palantir et al that you would here.
They just think it serves the globalhomo socialist cabal trying to take over the US and not the fascist coup that already has taken over the US.
We can't make them not suck as people but we can turn Frankenstein's monster back aginst them
i would even say with enough time and deprogramming we can make them suck a lot less than they do. perhaps it's true though that there can never be full recovery. but i think part of achieving class consciousness is having the faith to put in the effort in believing that better things are possible and that humans are neither inherently good nor inherently evil, but rather products of their environment
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Got my vote.
And my axe!
man talking sense right here
I dream of a hack that puts Fock's CEO whereabout at all time using Flock cameras.
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This is the town that put up a speed camera on the highway around 2012 and someone took a shotgun to it. The authorities fixed the camera and someone shot it again.
Best believe this backlash is already factored into Flock's equations
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