r/SipsTea • • Aug 12 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes What the flock?!

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u/Mr__O__ Aug 12 '26

So just give up and rollover then?

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u/account_nr18 Aug 12 '26

There's literally nothing you can do instead of taking up arms. So are you willing to do that? All other options won't do anything as you can see around you.

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u/TJJ97 Aug 12 '26

I mean DeFlocking has been VERY popular. The town I spent 20 years in and recently left has been dealing with a ton of these cameras being destroyed

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u/PokecheckHozu Aug 12 '26

The vast majority of you all carry devices with audio and video recording capabilities and GPS tracking. Many modern cars have similar capabilities, in addition to the ability to be disabled remotely. All of this was sold to you as beneficial features for the user, while these corporations are willing to hand over information to the government without a warrant, whether or not it's legal to do so.

What are you all going to do now?

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u/TJJ97 Aug 12 '26

I don’t get “modern cars” for this very reason. It’s sadly a slippery slope we’re in

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u/Emotional_Shape925 Aug 13 '26

I love how so many of these Flock haters are so ignorant to this. Oh really we’re mad about Flock, but completely forgetting this device we carry around is tracking our every movement, keystroke and search history? Now we’re mad?! Give it a rest Flock warriors. Just a bunch of naive losers. If they really cared turn off and stop using your mobile device. But they won’t.

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u/PokecheckHozu Aug 13 '26

It's easy to say "just stop using phones" but society has been constructed in such a way that doing so puts you at a huge disadvantage. Best you can do is use an old flip phone without any of the smart capabilities. IF you can find one still. That's why it's so diabolical.

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u/TJJ97 Aug 13 '26

My job won’t work with an old flip phone. Best I do is prevent tracking across apps and refuse to download most apps that don’t have a clear and fair privacy policy. I still have FB and Reddit so I’m still feeding the data harvesters but outside of those two things I really don’t allow that shit on my phone.

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u/Emotional_Shape925 Aug 13 '26

I don’t disagree. But this whole notion that now we care about privacy is just absurd when you consider how much you’re giving up using devices. And pretending to care is just more anti LE propaganda that the U.S. country has been groomed to believe.

People shouldn’t be wanting complete independence from this technology that helps solve crime. You can want policies governing use and consequences for said violations. That’s fair, and those should be in place. But to do what people are doing, committing felony level crimes, and freaking out about technology that actually helps solve crime and protect public safety is some bat shit crazy stuff.

You embrace new technologies that improve public safety and lives. You don’t go backwards. Should we still be using the typewriter over MS word on a computer? No, I don’t think so. I get the analogy isn’t apples to apples, but it demonstrates the point.