evacide3d ago

If you leave the infrastructure of surveillance in place, people in power will inevitably find an excuse to resume using it. You have to take that shit down.

https://boltsmag.org/verona-wisconsin-ends-contract-flock-ai-surveillance-cameras/

This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going. - Bolts

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read More

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Show threadMarcos Dione
@evacide that's exactly what @adapalmer says about censorship infra. Nice parallel.
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Show threadevacide3d ago
@mdione @adapalmer I believe this theory was first articulated in Field of Dreams: if you build it, they will come.
Show threadMarcos Dione3d ago
@evacide @adapalmer yeah, more in the sense of "if you build a baseball stadium, they will come and play baseball, but the next generation might play football, or soccer, or use it to burn books".
Show threadevacide3d ago
@mdione @adapalmer If you build a surveillance state, they will come and do surveillance.