Comment by nullbio
1 day ago
And what percentage of that backlash is by people with a criminal record? And what percentage of these criminals are the ones pushing the narrative of this being some grave invasion of privacy that must be stopped for "mah freedom"?
It's easy to work people up about anything involving monitoring, their brains immediately shut down and think emotionally about the subject. But not all forms of monitoring are equivalent, and some of it is useful and has net-benefit.
Lol pretty much everyone I've seen talking about Flock is a terminally online nerdy type (myself included). The people I see protesting it in the news and such are either similar young privacy-minded people or boomers. I don't think either of these groups tend to have criminal records, nor that there's a grand conspiracy of petty criminals working together to get rid of Flock, the one superhero that would defeat them once and for all.
Maybe it's easy to work people up about it because people don't like being monitored.
I agree it's not all equivalent and some of it is useful, but people have clearly made their voices heard that they think blanket license plate recording is excessive and makes them uncomfortable. Perhaps society will listen.
Until now the only uproar I've seen about it has been people posting Tiktok videos of them cutting down cameras or burning them with lasers, ergo commiting crimes.
"People with a criminal record" sort of implies that they were criminals before the whole Flock thing and are angry at Flock because they are criminals.
Regardless, I'm not sure where you're going with this. The Tiktokers actually going out and cutting down cameras are probably 0.01% of the "vaguely mad at Flock/ALPR" group.