“Everything I don’t like is terrorism.”
What is this, 2001 again?
Spoken like an antifa, uh, 3 star general. Get him boys! /s The future is a lot dumber than we might have thought.
Hey, man. I am four stars at least.
Did it ever stop?
It’s accelerated: In 2001, technology companies were forced to collect user data and realized it could be a goldmine. Today, technology companies are being forced to collect people’s IDs… I’m sure this will end up just fine.
“Forced” -> paid.
He can go fuck himself.
The word ‘terrorist’ has lost all meaning at this point.
That’s partly the point. Use words that accurately describe your evil group to incorrectly describe other groups and all of a sudden the words lose meaning and nobody can call you that anymore. Hooray!
This is just a play out of the rules for radicals playbook: accuse others of what you are doing.
DARVO
It lost all meaning the second Bush declared the “War on Terror”.
It means ‘Enemy of the rich’ now
It never had meaning. To instill deep fear. Doing violent acts with the purpose of achieving a political end.
It’s always been super broad and just waiting for a domestic party to adopt the tactics of Israel’s occupied territories here in the US, that’s where this was always heading.
It means “me no like.”
In the UK the term is defined by the government as anyone who is deemed by the government a threat to the government or the people or someone’s property or the predominant local religion. But recently it’s been exclusively used for the first one. In this country state law is valued higher than corporate, moral, ethical and religious laws, so YMMV
Introduction The Terrorism Act 2006 uses the definition of terrorism contained in the Terrorism Act 2000. Section 34 amends that definition slightly, to include specific types of actions against international governmental organisations, such as the UN. The definition in the Terrorism Act 2000 (as amended) states: 1. (1) In this Act “terrorism” means the use or threat of action where: 2. the action falls within subsection (2) 3. the use or threat is designed to influence the government or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public or a section of the public 4. the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause. (2) Action falls within this subsection if it: 1. involves serious violence against a person 2. involves serious damage to property 3. endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action 4. creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public 5. is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system Section 1(3) to (5) goes on to expand on the effect and extent of this definition.In the UK it means the cop wants your ID and is willing to pretend your camera is a gun to get it.
Fatal police shootings in the UK are getting more common. In 2019 one man was “lawfully murdered” because an officer said the victim’s mobile phone looked like a handgun. In 2024 it was announced the officer would not be prosecuted. Not one police officer has been found guilty of illegal murder as of yet.
The UK isn’t the US (at least in this context) almost nobody has guns.
In very limited situations the police can, but it’s not the norm.
Don’t get me wrong, ACAB, they just don’t generally use guns a as a pretext, perhaps a knife, or perhaps there is more than an arbitrary number of people grouped together so they can claim an ‘illegal’ protest.
I didn’t mean they really thought a camera were a gun. I mean UK cops will “suspect” people filming with a camera of being a terrorist (as if aiming the camera were like pointing a gun).
and I’m saying it’s not a common occurrence, intentional or not.
Guns aren’t common enough in the UK for “they’ve got a gun” to be a go-to for the police.
“They’ve got a knife” or “They’ve got a sign the ruling class don’t want people to see” are more likely.
As another poster pointed out, it has happened, but it’s by no means the norm.
It’s so broad, they can accuse anyone of it, and that’s the point. Both parties have long supported these over broad laws too, because they are not on our side, they want the ability to bring the power of the state on the heads of any groups that might not be breaking the law in a way any reasonable person would condemn but still scare those aritstocrats.
It never had any meaning. Reagan had them redefine it in a way that didn’t implicate America.
I had to double-check what Deflock was for:
DeFlock’s mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.
This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.
Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?
🙄
Careful! I think logic and questions are the new terrorist things to do! Oooo scarey!
Shit I just had a thought
Believe it or not, jail
Don’t turn off your telescreen
Better ask chatgpt what to do about that.
You jest but this is my default behavior now
“Things you couldn’t get me to publicly admit for $500, Alex”
That is not healthy, and you should stop doing that.
That’s really concerning. Like, if a loved one told me that I’d express serious concern for their mental health
What is this pic from exactly?
Shit from the title I thought they were going around smashing the cameras and that it was an exaggeration, but I was clearly wrong on the scale
Be the change you want to see in the world
Eh no I’d rather stay out of the US at the moment
It’s a surveillance company, stoking fears of terrorism is just good business, especially if it’s not true
Feeling the need to state “they are closer to Antifa than anything else” might be a good point to rethink your ethics…
Their what?
So… Flock have literally described themselves as fascist…
Their self description fits their actions.
Flock is a terrorist organization.
Flock is a state sponsored terrorist organization.
This guy couldn’t sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.
A big Fk U to all plebs coz I got all the money in the worldWhy do they always have such punchable faces?
his face appears to be asymmetrical.
Why is he dressed like the joker?
… but the Joker if he sold fake life insurance in nursing homes.
So we’ve moved on from Woke finally and just calling everything terrorist now? At least I won’t have to ask everyone saying “everything is so woke now” to define woke and watch them sputter.
That will just be replaced with asking them to define terrorism and watching them sputter.
Notice how a lot of these servailence CEO often come across as quite skittish and oddly concerned about what other are doing while obvuscating their own actions, kind of reminds me of a someone I used to know with diegnosed parinoid…
Just sayin…
Funny, I’ve been calling Flock the same thing.
Funny because I consider Flock a terrorist organization
I would like to kindly invite this person to lodge their head in a deeply recessed part of their own anatomy.
Since Flock CEO wants to give this movement some press
Here’s Benn Jordan, he’s done a series of videos on the cameras, demonstrates their vulnerabilities, and talks about how Flock has been deploying secretly by co-opting local municipalities to subsidize their national rollout.
First video, the one seems to have started the major anti-Flock push: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
Follow-up showing how easy they are to hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
More live demonstrated vulnerabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo
Not as directly related, but he discusses a way to use generative AI models to create noise masks for your specific plate that will disrupt the OCR process that ALPRs use. (Key term: Adversarial Noise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk
This guy is the coolest type of hacker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKr3Acrovio
This dude also has some solid videos on flock (and other things). Everyone should know that cities and towns are kicking flock out left and right. Use this momentum to organize against them in your town too!
Fuck these bootlickers
“Anything/anyone that cuts into my profits are terrorists.”
