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How can we make people see that these problems were happening before anyone had heard of Flock? Flock is just amplifying the worst things about American policing.
Flock isn't even the first system of surveillance cameras and ALPR cameras, they're just the first with national-scale panopticon ambitions.
There is this recurring theme of comments I keep seeing. "If you think this is bad, well it's nothing new, you should know what's been going on the whole time!".
That's not my attitude at all.
The basic "they really are spying on you" issue at the heart of the Flock scandal has bubbled up before, abuses have come to light before, there was alarm and pushback before, and then nothing in particular changed before, and the surveillance came to be accepted as the status quo before.
I don't want this go the same way. How can we connect this version to a bigger picture of freedom and liberty, instead of letting the news story run its course, letting it fade away, as has happened every other time?