𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (Golden Age Arc)@myth_pilot
I'm going to post more about flock cameras because I think a lot of people are just seeing things incorrectly.
First of all, the tech is effective. They're used to solve retail theft, armed robbery, car theft, and murders. Thousands of arrests, criminals taken off the streets. They're one of the best new tools for law enforcement and that's why the criminal left absolutely hates them.
I'm pretty much 100% in favor of any tech that helps local govt. and private business owners secure themselves. Demand for tech like this is mostly a local phenomena. When you want to ban or damage tech like this, you're basically telling private business owners they can't use the latest tools to secure their property.
Surveillance tech is awesome and it's being used every day by people to protect themselves.
Lots of people freak out about surveillance but I think that's a moot point. If you carry a cell phone (whose location can be subpoenaed) you've already chosen to live inside the digital panopticon. So while I recognize that historic America didn't have surveillance tech, I think that ship has sailed. I think the outrage over this tech specifically is dumb and kind of performative, and basically it's a left wing meme. There will absolutely be surveillance, and the only question is whether it's your friends or enemies who will be doing the surveillance. It's better to be pro-surveillance and plan use it for productive ends than to refuse to engage with the tech and let your enemies dictate how it's used. Like instead of whining about the tech, you could be forming local pro-surveillance tech advocacy organizations and pressuring lawmakers to make it structurally harder for leftists to use and it and easier for productive people to use it, all while locking up your enemies. For example.
I also think that imagining how the tech could be used against you is like cringing pre-emptively at the possibility of being beaten, it's like planning to lose in advance. A retard outlaw mentality.
Some people say that the real problem is the judges who let criminals out of jail. That's absolutely true. But security tech does work and even with lenient judges, it gets criminals off the streets more than before, so it has marginal utility. Meanwhile we can't wait around for a reform of the entire justice system. I think refusal to use security tech while waiting for "if we just"-type solutions ("if we JUST had a high trust society / working justice system / only white people" etc.) is kind of like the French who refuse to use AC while waiting for climate change to reverse itself.
For the retard right who opposes these, I see a failure to even imagine wielding power, a preference for fantasy, and an susceptibility to left wing memes. All of these should be rejected in favor of things that work and have proven themselves effective in the real world.
