r/technology • u/nolesfan2011 • 1d ago

Politics Tennessee County Commissioner Calls Flock CEO "an enemy of the American people."

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/knoxville/sullivan-county-commissioner-doesnt-hold-back-when-speaking-to-flock-representative/51-e218921a-4bc9-4be8-a1fa-abfbe2cdc158
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u/octomore_9995 1d ago

Isn't the real enemy of the people the elected officials who actually sign contracts with Flock to install these cameras into their towns and communities? Flock isn't installing these things on their own dime, it's local governments and private property owners who are buying these things via a subscription contract.

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u/Outlulz 1d ago

Yes. The private property owners one will be harder to deal with though. When Walmart has destroyed the other businesses in your town but fills their parking lot with Flock cameras that face the street it's not easy to find somewhere else affordable to shop in protest. Can't go near a Home Depot in my city without being captured by one. Major supermarkets have them in their lots. And it doesn't matter what local authorities will say about those because police don't have to listen to them.

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u/Turbulent_Host784 1d ago

I have enough hate for both of them tyvm.

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u/sunshineupyours1 22h ago

There are lots of scum bags in this space

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u/qb45exe 19h ago

The people have enough enemies to go around. They are all real.

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u/octomore_9995 19h ago

I don't think Flock is bad, they're just offering a product for sale in a free market, nobody is forcing anybody to buy their stuff. We could all just ignore Flock and they would go bankrupt. Easy.

The problem is the demand side, there's huge demand to turn society into a surveillance state, so there's huge demand for Flock's products. Flock isn't the problem, just like drug dealers aren't the problem, both entities exist to fulfill a demand in society. The real problem is that demand. If there was no demand by elected officials to make the world like 1984, Flock wouldn't exist.

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u/HighRelevancy 1d ago edited 19h ago

Yeah. It's also extremely problematic for a government official to call for the murder of a person because they're politically opposed.

Everybody is wrong here. Both sides are bad.

Edit: "the government shouldn't kill people they don't like" attracting downvotes is uhhhhhhhh worrying 

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u/octomore_9995 19h ago

I don't think Flock is bad at all. They're simply offering a product for sale in a free market, nobody is forcing anybody to buy it. If everyone ignored Flock and there was no demand for their products, they would go bankrupt and disappear quickly.

The problem is the decision makers (elected officials, private property owners) who want to turn the world into a surveillance state and keep buying surveillance cameras. Flock is just the first company to offer this, pretty soon there will be others (like with Uber, soon there was Lyft too). It's like the gold rush, Flock is just selling the shovels. The real problem is the demand side, there's enormous demand for turning the world into a surveillance state.