We love to see civil disobediance
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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if I was on this guy's jury I would flat out refuse to convict him on any charge for this.
Shouldn't be legal to setup systems outdoors for mass surveillance. Cameras outside to inhibit vandalism is one thing, but this is warantless wiretapping equivalent.
I agree, you could show me a video of his mom watching him on camera saying its him doing this and I would say theres no proof, its ai lol
Yes. His Mom looked shifty. Not enough evidence to convict.
Careful where you say this, otherwise they'll make sure you're never in a position to even consider doing that.
Definitely you'd never say this during a jury selection process.
Good for him, but always a little worried when someone does something I approve of. What are they, crazy?
This is direct action if I ever saw it.
They are unconstitutional.
Ya' know he's only been accused. Could be it wasn't him. Could be he was innocent. Could be those Flock cameras, with all the enshittification going on, just fall apart on their own. What with climate change we're getting some pretty high winds these days, after all.
Could be those Flock cameras, with all the enshittification going on, just fall apart on their own.
I heard that too.
Could be that I support what he did, and would nullify the shit out of it if I were on the jury.
His taxes paid for them. He can do what he wants with them
Accused? But the CEO himself said on TV people should destroy them if they like. I'm not making that up.
He gets to sell a replacement sk.why not 🤷♀️
He also said that people who oppose them are "terrorists" in another interview.
lol I was surprised that the UK has those too, then opened the article, and apparently there's a Suffolk in the USA 🙃
The three main naming schemes from left to right are: Spanish Catholic/Myth about gold -> Native Tribes names as interpreted by the French/someone related to cattles last name -> European towns/religous sect.
With spattering of what someone saw when they named (Oaksville, Pleasentview, spring view, Littlerock, etc)
The Pacific Northwest also has a bunch of places where we actually kept the names the locals gave them. And one major city we named after a chief we got along great with.
You say that, if we put you on the spot to name a thousand roads and a hundred towns, you would run out too, let alone with endless need for names. They use a lot of native names, a good share of states are native words.
UK has its own police state cameras they don't need to import them from the usa!
The UK and US are on the same oligarchs for the most part though. Palantir has been active in the UK for like almost two decades now for instance as I recall. The EU is the one with different contractors for this stuff, the US and UK are best fascist friends.
There's literally a ______ in the USA for every single UK placename, probably multiple.
Ok, that is a really fun Wikipedia link! I'm reading in bed and nearly woke up my partner by laughing.
My favorite part is that it's not just a funny name because it used to mean something else and now sounds funny to modern ears, it's literally meant "shit town" from the beginning.
People should destroy these cameras in a group while wearing gloves with extra fingers, shirts with illegible words, doing all sorts of random shit in the background so whatever video evidence they present, you can just say, "nah that's clearly AI slop."
I didn't see nothin'.
From the article:
"Cameras consist of three parts. An $800 camera, $500 pole and $350 solar panel.
....Sovern told him solar panels from the equipment were being used for camping.
Sovern is an engineer and mechanic in the U.S. Air Force according to his defense attorney Cole Roberts."
Sounds like the flock solar panels and batteries can be used for powering other things if you know what you're doing.
"Sovern is an engineer and mechanic in the U.S. Air Force according to his defense attorney Cole Roberts. "