You are what you do and the purpose of a system is what it does. So if you build a system that allows mass abuse of power through surveillance then that's who you are and that's the purpose of the system you built. No much point arguing about intent. It's irrelevant and this guy needs to pay for what he did. Not only for justice but to send a message to anyone else trying to do the same thing.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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We should bring back the classics.
Nah, that guy escaped.
That guy was substantially smarter, faster, and better equipped. All these oligarchs are dense, puss-filled sacks with financial plot armor only.
Let's give it a shot
Beyond its surveillance network of over 100,000 cameras, the company is hoping to unleash drones, surveillance trailers, and gunshot-detecting hardware — efforts that likely won’t convince an already extremely wary public.
"Hey bro, I heard you like things stuck on top of poles."
One Gaddafi special coming up!
He must be very vexed, what with all the voyeurism and such.
this mother fucker is in denial and is trying to subvert people opions. HES IS WRONG!
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
HENCE, schools are underfunded for that very reason. serves 2 purposes, makes future republican voters, mostly men. and people working low wages for the rest of thier life.
3 purposes. When they're inevitably the target of a mass shooter, the outrage and fear can be used and abused.
i also forget to mention, originally cannon fodder for the military.
No amount of funding can fix the curriculum, but yeah.
Edit: I guess I need to explain this for some of you, but the state will push their agenda regardless of funding. What good is a million dollars for textbooks if the textbooks don't include civil rights?
which is why the car-centric , uncritical-thinking-education-system society that is normalized is most places is ...well.... being normalized.
Keeping a large enougj percent of the population sick and stupid leads to infighting where the lower classes of people swuabble and blow up each other rather than the greedy fatcats who hold most of the planet's resources needlessly and selfishly.
A billionaire is very happy when they hear the news that a poor person being evicted from one of the homesor apartments that theyre buying probably got shot by the police if they refused to leave cause that police officer will be the one who draws ire from the public rather than the billionaire. ← THIS exact same story has happened a trillion times in history in other instances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth#/media/File:Distribution_of_wealth_globally.jpg
“The central point is simple,” reads the announcement. “An alert is a lead, not a conclusion, which should be confirmed by an officer”
You mean the same officers who regularly serve no-knock warrants on the wrong house?
You demand perfection and it's unffair. Who hasn't flashbanged a baby in a crib from time to time. /s
Boy if I had a nickle
Put it in C02 gas for a while, then smell it.
It's crazy that you have so many nickels.
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No, I think they mean specifically the officers who throw a flash bang blindly into said house, after knocking down the wrong house's door.
And the flash bang lands in the baby's crib
That is also what innocent people who have had their lives shattered and obliterated by these machines were likely screaming through tears and terror as they were beaten and violently forced into the back of an unmarked SUV by thugs with machine guns.
Has he gotten literally any consequences?
Not yet but I bet he gets scared whenever he sees a woodchipper near by
He’ll be fine, he doesn’t have a spine or a heart.
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Consequently, Flock CEO Garrett Langley is now in full damage control mode.
It's interesting how this coincides with the news about the cases against Luigi, and I can't help but wonder if this CEO fears becoming like that other CEO.
The company is still trying to paint itself as the good guy
I find it very hard to believe that anyone in that company, especially the CEO, believes themselves to be "the good guy"
I quit a job for moral reasons after nearly two years because it took that long for me to realize that it wasn’t actually at all cool to work at an insurance company defending businesses that gave their employees mesothelioma (among many other types of claims).
It sounds obvious when you say it like that, but it took a while for me to realize that when the defense and plaintiff’s attorneys are all good friends with each other and with the mediators involved, there’s not actually much of a check on them negotiating multiple cases in conjunction (I’ll come down to $5k for smith and jones each, but I can’t settle Simmons for less than $200k).
When I witnessed that, I told my boss, who was horrified, until he realized that they weren’t billing that conversation to multiple claims, and then he didn’t see the issue. My management had always been very vocally in favor of paying what we owed, not trying to minimize our payments, but as long as the breach of ethics wasn’t “coming from our side,” they were perfectly happy to take advantage of it.
I’m very much not proud of this, but I think I could have continued believing that I was helping the real victims who had yet to come forward by saving the coverage reserves in the cases that were in front of me (through actively defending them and haggling during the negotiation of settlements, not through any funny business of my own) indefinitely, had I not witnessed that conversation or received such a blasé response from my company.
Thank you for caring. Too many people are willing to harm others for pay as long as they can distance themselves from the consequences.
To be entirely fair, I had a pretty privileged position*, so I had the luxury to act in accordance with my morals once I realized I wasn't. I don’t know that I would have been able to convince myself to quit if I were living paycheck to paycheck trying to support a family.
*Looking back, I was absolutely in a privileged position, but that was mostly due to me earning between $50-60k/year in a HCOL area at that role (and $35-40k for a few years beforehand, all within the last decade) and not having kids or student loans. That’s fucked up.
I was making six figures doing web development for a bank. My life began to fall apart and I quit. I wish I could say it was an entirely morally motivated decision, but it was mostly me beginning to realize I was burned out. Still, I quit without hesitation and I don't regret it. My boss said we had to come in to the office for tax purposes, basically. She called it "funny money."
People are not pawns to be pushed across the board.
So I was also privileged. I've been coasting on savings since quitting, but the money is running low and the AI bubble has yet to burst. I may get a fast food job to survive for now, but my sights are set on ecological work. I want to give back to the planet and do more to build a better future instead of taking all I can get. I wish my whole life had gone differently. I wish I hadn't fallen for the bait at all.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. We have much to learn.
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No. This has to do with the negative press and the thousands of contracts they are losing. Not everything has to do with that case
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This reads exactly like someone trying to foist off blame on an already hated Policing system. We already hate the cops, my guy. But guess what? We can do two things at once. Three things even. Our hatred is legion.
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If you feel like there's a need to exclude yourself from the machine you helped build/create/market, then perhaps you shouldn't have been involved in that machine.
If not flock then someone else would've done it, and there's no way to know if someone else is already doing it, or has already done it, but those are problems for a different day. I do know that if I mixed up a 2 and 7 whether intentional, by understandable mistake, or by negligence, I'd be in trouble. Arguments have been made in the past that bodycam footage generally should not be shared because it captures people at their worst, having the worst day of their lives when police respond to a disaster. Flock's using the "eh, good enough" approach to find an acceptible limit for how many people they cause to have their worst day ever.
It was all a big misunderstanding
Add this guy to The List.
he told Bloomberg that “we’re not Big Brother” — definitely not a thing that Big Brother would say, right?
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What's really scary is how little coverage these cameras/this company/these stories get in Europe.
Very, very little, if any. I don't think that I've seen it heard anything other than what I see on Lemmy.
Wait it's not talked about over the pond? They're a hugely controversial and admonished thing here in the states. The panopticon, if you will
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Flock CEO Garrett Langley is now in full damage control mode. The narrative he’s pushing: that it’s all a big misunderstanding. In a new interview, he told Bloomberg that “we’re not Big Brother”
Well they may not want the mantle of "Big Brother," but they are 100% a part of the Big Brother system of surveillance that's currently tracking all of us. Patriot Act says that the government has next to unlimited surveillance authority during a declared emergency, so every president since then has been re-upping that "National Emergency" so that the surveillance machine can keep on chugging. There is no indication that it will ever stop. The pretense of us operating under "Threat level Orange" for over 2 and a half decades is ridiculous.
Also, the Flock system is a really stupid part of Big Brother. In one instance, it misread license plate numbers an astonishing 71% of the time.
Crook needs to be tried.
Seeing citadel in the background is just chef's kiss.
Oh, you didn't understand? Get the fuck out of our communities. It's simple.
A big misunderstanding???
My guy, not to be like, needlessly hyperbolic, or anything, but the general sentiment I see is that most Americans wouldn't mind seeing you skinned alive. Fucking NOBODY likes Flock, outside of those directly working in the surveillance apparatus, and even THEY hate you!!!
So incredibly tonedeaf...
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