Hey all.
I made a video this week about Flock’s leaked employee buyouts and, in researching it, found this neat site that maintains a database of entities and municipalities that have canceled, suspended, or opted not to renew their Flock contracts.
If you need something positive to think about today, this is a good place to start. There were over 100 contracts canceled just in September alone.
We’ll see, I suppose. I lack your optimism that, just because something fails fantastically, it will not be used and trusted by corpo-fascists and kakistocrats.
I’m actually not an optimist, and didn’t expect to be saying that even a few months ago. My adult life has largely corresponded to the post-WTC march of fascist mass surveillance and I was one of a handful of people who actually opposed it back in college in the 2000’s.
I just don’t see how any of the three companies get their tech to work properly and they 100% are not going to self-regulate.
Just this month Flock has lost hundreds of contracts in 36 US states. That is some serious bipartisan anger. If you’ve got 9 minutes and want to hear more about why I think how I do, I made a video on it this week.