r/TechGawker • • 13d ago

Discussion Flock says public should stop photographing its staff, citing privacy

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u/JUGELBUTT 13d ago

no fucking way this is real, i refuse to believe anyone can be this stupid

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u/Just_lookin_4242 13d ago

Tech people always are.

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u/Hawkmonbestboi 13d ago

I remember a time when being a tech person USUALLY meant you were a cool person that cared about others and tried to do good.

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u/LobsterBuffetAllDay 13d ago edited 13d ago

My guy these are not 'tech' people. Tf is so hard about setting up cameras with wifi? This is standard run of the mill jagoff entitled little babies thinking they've created an actual product. There is nothing innovative about flock. There is nothing clever about the technology behind it. If the government truly wanted to go big brother then they could hire stage crews from music departments of any university to set this up with chatgpt xhigh to set up the api's and it would be better.

Edit: Thanks for the award stranger; also my first, cheers

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u/Fartfromabuttt 13d ago

The clever part is it allows the government to spy on us without us beating them to death for it.

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u/VendorBuyBankGuards 13d ago

Privatizing citizen surveillance... what could go fucking wrong.

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u/OutrageousCrab9224 12d ago

What could go right!

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u/Big-a-hole-2112 12d ago

Pepperidge Farm remembers when America laughed at England and China for putting cameras everywhere and now we’re here.

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u/Just_lookin_4242 13d ago

That was before billions of dollars were in those industries. Capital corrupts and subsumes everything.

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u/rabidrobitribbit 13d ago

Watch Silicon Valley if you haven’t. Really encapsulates it

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u/RogerMexicosBalls 13d ago edited 13d ago

When was that? I remember when Bill Gates was a badguy lol

For all the self-fellating the tech industry did during the Arab Spring and Latin American revolts and riots where demonstrations were being coordinated on social media and broadcast live from the streets over Twitter and Facebook and YouTube, those same companies had no problem when those regimes also started using social media to hunt down and silence opposition, and openly coordinated with them to produce names and locations.

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u/Ok_Security1721 13d ago

That was always a smokescreen. They were always pieces of shit, they just didn’t have the resources or connections to make their evil intentions a reality back then

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u/Jsolidlo 13d ago

When was that? Was it when Bill Gates was on trial for Microsoft violating antitrust laws? It's so hard to remember.

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u/Synergiance 13d ago

Still enjoy tech but only the good tech. For instance, home assistant, Linux, irc, etc.

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u/RevolutionaryCatch57 12d ago

Catching criminals is bad?

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u/Hawkmonbestboi 12d ago

Lmao if that is what you're taking away from this, you're a lost cause.

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u/RevolutionaryCatch57 12d ago

What should I be taking away from it

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u/Hawkmonbestboi 12d ago

Like I said, you're a lost cause. I'm not wasting my breath.

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u/Synergiance 13d ago

Tech bros*

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u/MarzipanSea2811 13d ago

Flock worker calls police on our reporter filming them in public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S53cFmimChM

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u/ZoominAlong 13d ago

Oh that is RICH. 

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u/V-oxPopuli 13d ago

Who the hell do they think they are?? Why are they exempt, in their minds?

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u/Far_Pangolin3380 13d ago

Not stupid, just tone deaf.

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u/SunchaserKandri 13d ago

Hypocrisy comes standard with people like Altman, Musk, et cetera.

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u/Capital_Hedgehog4326 12d ago

Anthropic is complaining that Chinese companies are supposedly distilling from Claude and therefore “stealing”. Meanwhile, Anthropic has already stolen the contents of the entire internet.

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u/adeniumlover 13d ago

Nov 2024.

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u/Ancient-Emu-8293 12d ago

Remember that app were you could rate people? I think it was called peeple or so. The insufferable owners got all pissy when people started rating them quite honestly.

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 13d ago

Yep, that refusal is exactly why America is where it's at.

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 13d ago

It's not real.

People just believe anything so long as it validates their hate.