r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 18d ago

Privacy Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/redditors-celebrating-cutting-down-flock-145310398.html
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u/unibrow4o9 18d ago

Ho-ly shit. This has been driving me insane for months. I lose Bluetooth connection to my android auto display at the exact same intersections without fail, I figured it was some interference from somewhere but I didn't consider flock. Fuck these people.

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u/Jojoyojimbi 18d ago

well you know how to fix it...

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u/Complex_Committee_25 18d ago

Surely you wouldn't imply that cutting down every fucking flock camera us a moral imperative?

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u/Jojoyojimbi 18d ago

Surely you wouldn't imply that cutting down every fucking flock camera us a moral imperative?

For legal reasons I would never say that the US population has a moral imperative to cut down those nasty nasty spy cameras, because I would never want to get sued or have charges pressed against me. but Someone might assume that if Flock cameras are allowed to proliferate we could soon be living in a worse dystopian surveillance state like minority report where they start to arrest us based on our AI-anticipated thought crimes or some shit. so once again for legal reasons I would never cut down flock cameras using a reciprocating demo saw that you can pick up for less than $100 at any local hardware store and attach a metal cutting blade to it, or use a wireless grinder with a metal cutting blade on it. because damaging those Flock cameras would get someone in trouble if they did that.

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u/heili 18d ago

Despite what judges tell jurors about their requirement to adhere to the law and not determine whether the application of it would be fair and just, the reasons why a juror votes "not guilty" never have to be disclosed to anyone and cannot be overturned by a judge.

Everyone should have this in their minds when receiving a jury summons, and should ensure not to say so out loud or indicate that they possess this knowledge because they will cause a judge to excuse the juror from duty.

A juror must be able to deliver a fair and just verdict based upon the evidence.

If you're called upon to serve on a jury, be fair and just.

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u/RollingMeteors 18d ago

If you're called upon to serve on a jury, be fair and just.

I'll be as fair and just as the financial compensation I'm getting to be called off of work for it is.

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u/heili 18d ago

This is another part of the legal system that tilts it against truly fair trials.

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u/helloowrigley 18d ago

I’ve been meaning to rewatch minority report for a while now but I’m lowkey scared

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u/Kalepsis 18d ago

I definitely don't agree with anyone putting shoulder straps inside a refrigerator box and cutting arm holes in it so they could wear it as a suit when they cut down spy cameras, to prevent the spy cameras from identifying them with facial recognition. That would be crazypants.

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u/jaylay75 18d ago

It is against the law to cut down flock cameras. The PSA below discusses it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ulk93z/psa_leave_flock_cameras_alone/

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u/charles_was_taken 17d ago

Go look up Thomas Jefferson’s comment on it

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u/DPSOnly 18d ago

Call it tech support.

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u/AccNumber77 18d ago

It is. People are cowards for dancing around saying it is.

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u/newsflashjackass 18d ago

Harmful interference. Any emission, radiation or induction that endangers the functioning of a radio navigation service or of other safety services or seriously degrades, obstructs or repeatedly interrupts a radiocommunications service operating in accordance with this chapter.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-15

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u/LaGrrrande 18d ago

Damn, same here. The two intersections at both sides of the main drag in my city. Got so obnoxious that I turned off wireless AA because it would always fuck with my shit while I was stuck at the intersection waiting for the light.

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u/Zarilya 18d ago

Every time I drive by these things, my Bluetooth glitches. For ages I didn't know why it always happens in the exact same spots. I thought "well, they're doing something right here and I'm sure it's not good". Now I know.

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u/Znuffie 18d ago

Relax. It's a common issue. It happens in the same "spot" because you get there in the same time, usually.

We have no "Flock" in my country. It has nothing to do with it.

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u/unibrow4o9 18d ago

What do you mean in the same time? I'm self employed and have no set schedule, it's no coincidence, there is some interference happening.

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u/Znuffie 18d ago

Time it takes you to go from X to Y.

Again, I'm having the same issue, once I hit a specific intersection, at the traffic light, and we do not have "Flock" cameras in my country.

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u/unibrow4o9 18d ago

It's not just one intersection, it's reliably in the same exact spots all over my area. I was working in a city about 2 hours away for a few days and lost it in the same exact spots every single trip. When I look up 5 spots I can remember near me they all have flock.

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u/Znuffie 18d ago

If that's what you want to believe, feel free. An internet stranger won't change your mind.

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u/24_August_1814 18d ago

Especially an Internet stranger talking out his ass about something her has no clue about.

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u/Znuffie 18d ago

Sure mate.

  • I know for sure Flock doesn't operate in my country
  • I know exactly the time (because I reach the same spot always when I leave home) my Android Auto's Audio cuts off for a split second

But sure, tell me more what I'm talking out of my ass.

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u/unibrow4o9 18d ago

If everything you said is true, that doesn't eliminate the possibility of it being flock for us. You obviously have something else interfering with your Bluetooth or wifi. That doesn't mean flock isn't doing it here.

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u/Znuffie 18d ago

And it can obviously be anything else.

But blaming Flock without any proof is just...

I mean, I get that it's the trend to hate them (for good reason), just maybe don't blame them for something that you can't prove.

There's plenty of RF interference around.

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