‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting
2026-06-12 23:11 UTC
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@yggstyle@lemmy.world 2026-06-13 01:49
I’m not saying you should… but you could… use the cameras and other open sources … darkweb and whatever else and just to utterly dox each and every one of these people promoting these products. These are not tech savvy people. They are old, decrepit, and well trained in responding only to a hearty handful of totally-not-a-bribe. If you want these cunts to worry about security and rights… you need to make it personal. Find an open flock cam? Live stream it with a projector where people see it. Collect some damning evidence and push it right in the face of the people who think it’s secure. My favorite discussion topic when someone starts with that protect the children bullshit: You are totally right! But oh wait: with devices likely headed in the direction of being a beacon of ‘my user is underage’ … doesn’t that mean you can effectively, using publicly available information, play pokemon go… except with children?! After all with the leaks and cross references… they could probably just put a filter system in place and let you just find your match. Boy, girl, age, weight, build? I see you’ve made a selection! Care to cross reference with our live footage so you can find pick out that special place for the ideal get together? Need some AI help with finalizing your choice? Let’s dress them up with a bit of help from our app developer GROK! …Promise this is your child and youre just playing dress up to pick out that right gift? Alright! Here you go! Oh its actually your significant other and youre looking for something spicy… well … why not! Heres a few more images with some fun playful outfits for the bedroom… we did you a favor and put them in a couple recommended positions we completely recommend. Go get em king! You’re ready! Usually by this point they’ve shut the hell up and are now contemplating how to put the genie back bottle. Feel free to use some creative flair. If they dont look like they are about to be ill - you clearly need to go harder. Damn this seems dark. Just anybody could steal our children. And so easily! We should probably gps tag them at birth. We’ll call it loli-jack. This way we’ll never lose another kid. I’m sure that won’t backfire… Hey and kids grow fast. Maybe some mandatory 3d scans of them during yearly checkups. Obviously so AI can track them if they are being trafficed. No way to disguise them then! Oh and then we can totally sell those totally anonomized scans to help with… You’ll feel positively disgusting if youre doing it right. After care is important: the thing I recommend is washing yourself down with iso alcohol. Get a good scrub in. Then get that inner cleanse with a stiff shot and a good cry in the fetal position in the shower. Fuck I hate this timeline.
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@AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2026-06-12 23:27
Will they remember this the next time he’s up for reelection?
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@Babalugats@feddit.uk 2026-06-12 23:40
“You will not speak on Flock tonight,” he responds. “One person designated. You can pick that person … if I gave everyone three minutes to say the same thing, which is opposition to Flock, we’d never get done … I’ve spoken. I’m not debating this.” Only politicians can be that arrogant. imagine forgetting how the fuck you got into that seat in the first place. Ironically, it’s the same reason that he thinks that one person can speak on behalf of everyone else. Voting for somebody to make your decisions for you is crazy. But expecting that same person to agree with everything that you want is just insane. Even with that in mind, arrogant pricks like this guy still seem to be able to berate their constituents and remain confident that they will get re-elected.
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@Alpha71@lemmy.world 2026-06-13 03:33
Sounds like someone’s losing the next election
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@W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-12 23:59
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@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-12 23:43
It’s more reasonable than the headline makes it sound. The commissioner pointed out that he’s not in charge of the decision to use Flock cameras and told the group of people who wanted to express their opposition to him anyway to pick one representative who would do so. I’ve been to meetings where people repeatedly express the same negative opinion of a policy to someone with no control over that policy and I guess that’s what the commissioner wanted to avoid.
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@BillCheddar@lemmy.world 2026-06-13 04:05
You want to know what’s wrong with America? We’re pussies now. That traitor – and he surely is a fucking treason-weasel – should not have been able to safely walk out of that meeting after telling the community that they didn’t have the god-given right to address their elected officials.
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@ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2026-06-13 05:19
The article quotes a Madison County privacy org directly: “The Sheriff Office claims they are only using this technology for serious crimes, yet published audit logs tell a different story,” a website called Madison for Privacy says. “Madison County has searched the nationwide database over 1,200 times over just a 60 day period. In a county over only 20,000 residents, its hard to understand what could warrant this many searches.” Holy shit, they’re not wrong. Follow that haveibeenflocked.com link to the Madison County sheriff’s office Flock searches, and the accompanying note: These are some of the searches performed by Madison County NC SO. We have seen a total of 1,216 searches for this agency, performed by 1 person over 62 days between 3/11/2026 and 5/11/2026 (1 user was active in the most recent six months) The most recent import of records for this agency happened on 5/17/2026. Madison County is southwest of Asheville on the state line between NC and TN, comprised mostly of unincorporated communities, which is a polite way of saying most residents live in the hills, not in the towns. The entire county has a population of roughly 21,000, and the largest town, Mars Hill, has only 2,000 residents. It doesn’t get much more rural than this on the East Coast. So given the population and its distribution, and the fact that the sheriff’s office only serves the unincorporated communities because the three towns have their own municipal police, where the fuck does the sheriff’s office get cause or even time for what averages out to 600 Flock searches in a month? But it gets even stranger. I clicked on a few searches, just to see what I could see, and every single one I clicked on with an unredacted reason* was associated with the same two or three other non-local police departments as the source of the information retrieved, two of which were the exact same ones every time: Forest Park Ohio PD, Tifton Georgia PD, and occasionally the Douglas County Nevada SO. There were a couple others, but always at least one of those three. This is true whether I clicked on a homicide, a non-DUI alcohol inquiry, a burglary, a car theft, or a sex offense. (If you go to the little i next to the other PDs, it tells you, “This audit record appears in [n] different public record files.”) No matter what I chose, how disparate the crime or the date, one if not all of those three law enforcement agencies came up as the source of the Flock information that inquiry pulled from. And this is the same of every search I clicked on, over and over and over again. (*The sole exceptions to all this were where the crime itself was redacted, and then the associated source of information was Buncombe County, NC, which neighbors Madison Country and could potentially be a valid law enforcement reason to search Flock data.) And when I selected the Repeat Searches checkbox at the top, defined as “Display filter that hides likely duplicate searches (identical searches within 5 minutes). Does not affect server-side counts or downloads,” an even 800 of those 1,216 searches get loaded. So fully two thirds of those searches qualify, to Flock parameters at least, as duplicates executed within five minutes of each other. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t understand how it all works on the Flock side, but it almost seems like someone in Madison County, NC is just sitting on their ass keeping serious tabs on a short list of people living in other places.
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@some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-06-13 05:37
The best part is when they listen to their constituents. Wait… they don’t?! I’m shocked! Also, as Trump said, nobody cares about the Epstein files. It’s a hoax!
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@AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-13 05:58
Sounds like some heads need to roll then, literally.
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@NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2026-06-13 06:42
30 cities have banned flock. I hope the county bans these commissioners. It can be done.
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@alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 2026-06-13 06:53
It’s always white old men. What a surprise ! …
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@WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2026-06-13 07:39
Great, maybe you should start refusing to let these pieces of shit feel safe in public. No? Not willing to do that? Fine, zero sympathy- you deserve whatever they give you. Could not be sicker of Americans whining about how victimized they are. This is on you. Yes, I’m victim-blaming, you fucking cowards. You spent two centuries dining out on the myth that dealing with this kind of shit was the ONE THING you’re good at. Go fuck yourselves, I could give two shits whether MAGA keeps steamrolling you at this point.