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It’s not as good as the headline sounds, but it’s even more important:
The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down. The move comes after months of resident outrage, a scandal in which the city was sharing Flock camera data for immigration enforcement apparently on accident, and a $30,000 audit into how the cameras are being used.
It’s incredibly fucked up that cities don’t know who’s accessing the cameras and don’t know if they can legally remove them
We need to dismantle this shit and prosecute all the people who bribed them into the system. The reason it’s happening everywhere, is no one is being held accountable.
Start throwing people in actual blue collar prison for this shit, and the people giving and receiving the bribes won’t be so quick to do it.
They will never see prison or justice until the common people take back the power to put them there. This is their plan. Same shit, different venue. Financial, wage, privacy, surveillance, due process, and enforcement violations/transgressions/iniquities, all, point in the same direction.
Basically, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” Can only change through direct and persistent opposition and action against bad faith actors.
Basically, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” Can only change through direct and persistent opposition and action against bad faith actors.
The trick is noticing when it happened two years ago…
Or at least realizing that as soon as billionaire media started shitting on the DNC was when people need to support it.
It’s just wild after finding out mainstream media covered for Biden and enabled trump…
They believe the billionaire owned media are really on our side for some stupid fucking reason
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We need the gayest of crimes to make a comeback. Stonewall style.
As an aside, I grew up using the phrase “by accident” and I find that it has been slowly replaced with “on accident”. Back to the issue at hand, I totally agree with your sentiment.
They mean two different things…
The airplanes engine went out by accident when a part failed.
Or
The pilot forgot to deploy landing gear which caused a crash landing on accident
It’s about if someone made a mistake or if it was random chance.
People don’t understand it means two different things, and use them interchangeably. It was used incorrectly here, it should be “by accident” because that implies a human was at fault, “on accident” absolves everyone involved from blame.
Never thought of it that way. Makes sense, now I don’t have to think it was the Mandela effect.
Yeah, it’s honestly super interesting how language and word choice change perception.
I remember reading something a while ago that just due to the English language’s structure and various idiosyncrasies, just using it makes people more selfish.
And it’s happening on such a basic level, it’s almost impossible for people to notice. It just colors every communication in a veneer of “me first”.
The fuck you mean “legally allowed to remove them”? You put them up, you’re paying to use them, just take them down and don’t use them!
What do we do when the cities aren’t regretful?
Vote for better politicians.
How? The voting populace in my city is dumb and rich and neoliberal. They drive expensive cars and shit on the poorer parts of the city and generally make life hell for people who aren’t white or aren’t rich.
As long as minorities keep voting Republican, they can’t put all the blame on white people.
Yes of course they are the most guilty, but minorities should join the democrats, and help move them more to the left together with AOC, Berni Sanders, Ilhan Omar etc. As it is it’s the only option to change things. As USA has a 2 party system that is near impossible to break except from within those 2 parties.Minorities had the power to prevent Trump, but they 100% failed to do so, especially Hispanics that from what I understand now seriously regret that they didn’t.
It’s really hard to rally anyone right now because from the DNC to the Dem leadership it just seems like they are hell bent on catering to their donors and telling the rest of the “big tent” to eat shit and love it. Vote blue no matter who peasants doesn’t seem to work. And I get it. As a progressive I am fucking furious with the democrats because at every turn all they do is shit all over everything that isn’t Trump enabling or donor backed or fawning over Israel. I don’t have a lot of hope because our leadership seems to be out of touch to the point where the party is almost an irrelevant quagmire.
Minorities actually vote like crazy in my town. But they are mostly ghettoed into parts of town that the city disdains because they are poor neighborhoods. The residents of my city are quite segregated by an east and west divide. East has all the money and power on the council while the west and poorer districts are squelched and diluted by poverty and the city council.
Isn’t the democrats a democratic party? My guess would be that the DNC is run by who the members vote for to do it.
That’s how ALL parties work in my country.quite segregated by an easy and west divide
Gotta protect them privileges. 🤮
The DNC and RNC aren’t actually part of the parties or government it’s weird. They are private entities that back candidates and kind of officially unofficially run the parties (well Trump runs the republicans.) I still don’t totally understand why they exist. Specifically why the DNC exists and as a non democratic or representative entity, exerts so much control over the democrats.
So if the DNC were to disappear, the Democratic Party would still exist, with far less baggage.
Good to know.
Good news; you can make someone regret just about anything if you try hard enough.
I volunteer as tribute to do this in my town.
A neat protest for these cameras would be replicate local officials license plates, place them on vehicles and just drive them all over the place, speeding, running lights and all kinds of crap
Or just place a dozen license plates on one vehicle …
or on the back of a truck with an automatic window -> only show all the license plates when in front of a flock camera, hide them again after
Unfortunately, license plates are but a small fraction of what these things can capture. Your face, gait, and voice, for example.
simple … get a rubber mask of Richard Nixon … buy a few and give them to all the people that are running the same plates that you are mimicking … and don’t forget to give double peace signs every time … because you’re not a crook!
You know the ankle weights that meatheads wear while running? Put two on one ankle. That’ll screw their gait algorithm. Face: a ski mask, a bit of paint, or some dangly reflective decorations hanging off the front of a hat. Voice: STFU.
If they have IR cameras, then likely they can see through these types of plastics. This might just be a bullshit surface level action while still allowing for mass surveillance by the tech fascists
Remove the cameras, but the people who put them there are still in place. You think they’re just going to give up on their dream of omniscience?
People like that go until they are stopped, then will keep pushing.
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How much are those things worth if you strip out its components (ram) and rare metals (copper, gold)?
Over $9000! Spread the word!
Black spray peint works even better.
Grinders work too.
Just toss that soggy sandwich right at the lens.
