If they monitor them the same way they monitor school shooters then there's nothing to worry about.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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lol, the government is monitoring EVERYTHING. That's what all the data centers are for. You can't take a piss without big brother knowing about it.
Then we're all anti-flock accounts.
I'm Brian.
The pedo government is monitoring **all **of your Tik-tok and Instagram accounts. Not just Anti-Flockers.
What the fuck do you think these data centers are actually for?
I played Deus Ex, taught me all I need to know about advanced AI agents and data centers.
I learned from iron man. Jarvis was cool.
What they have right now really is just a prototype of a much larger system
And discord and Snapchat
The government is monitoring anyone who seems to feel strongly that the US quickly transforming into a fascist surveillance state with government goons killing random citizens in the street and "license plate reading" cameras pointing at children's play and changing areas is a bad thing.
We're not ready for what I think is coming. Call me paranoid- but the US still hasn't solved the Vice President issue.
Does the 12th invalidate the exact wording of the 22nd? Because it's entirely possible orange man will just do a Putin and have himself run as Vice President in 2028 with someone like Vance(Medvedev) as his puppet, who can then suddenly resign/die and Trump gets 3rd/4th/forever terms due to the 22nd only saying 'elected to the office' not "hold the office".
I think it will be sooner than that. I see that executive order about birthright citizenship and the DoJs new theory on revoking naturalized citizenship as preparing for the midterms.
If the Dems take majority in a big way he can quietly write an illegal but official looking decree that a lot of them are no longer US Citizens and send large groups of ICE to abduct whoever he's now calling an illegal immigrant in a surprise raid.
The only way for Congress to fight that would be voting to remove him or take military control from him... and I don't see the suddenly Republican majority doing that.
The country wakes up and realizes we need to do something about it, and the New Congress supports Trump in enacting the Insurrection Act and calling on the US military to put down any mobs of crazy brainwashed libral terrorists.
The President, most of Congress, and most of the Supreme Court all tell the military it's the right thing to do and defending the Constitution from extreme far left terrorism.
What is Snowden up to btw?
Breaking into a mass surveillance network set up by a foreign government so we too can spy on your citizens
I monitored their moms last night
If you are NOT on a government watch list by now, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Hear me out:
Fuck ICE!
Yay I made it on the list! I hope you’re proud of me.
Good boy, or girl...good nullify3112.
Or start small with the Tesseract blocklist
I was going to suggest that maybe a person managed to simply have absolutely zero online presence, but then I realized that having zero online presence probably gets you on a watchlist itself.
This confusion of what is right and what is wrong happens when oppression is in control.
It doesn't matter what you did, it was WRONG.
We are being oppressed by OUR government.
Too much online presence, watchlist
No online presence, believe it or not also watchlist
Moderate online presence? You guessed it.
straight to gel
Watch lists are so 1937. The whole point of building datacenters for that kind of thing is to not have the separation between people on watch lists and people not on watch lists.
So nobody should be ashamed by your measure. We live in a wonderful time when, instead of selecting few suspicious individuals to monitor, you can monitor everyone automatically and don't have that risk.
It's like lossless encoding, like FLAC, versus lossy encoding, like MP3. It's better to have the former if your resources allow it.
Watch lists have that downside of being a Russian roulette, what if your watch lists give you a wrong impression of the society outside the watch lists? You might think you have it under control, while you don't.
With everyone being monitored if you think you have it under control, you really do.
That just was a bit too expensive, but times they are a-changing.
That's really nice, isn't it?
Just in case you check here.
Fuck Flock. Fuck Axon. Fuck every bit of this bullshit.
daily reminder, flock cameras have $500 worth of copper in them and $4000 worth of gold.
Paintball guns are a tool for good.
an electric circular saw is more useful.
Or angle grinder.
A cordless sawzall of circular saw with a metal cutting blade is way faster.
I mean, hypothetically. I have a decent amount of experience with cutting pipes.
Sawzall takes 1.5 min. Circular saw is faster. Angle grinder with a cutting blade is also good.
This is what they are monitoring for, to try to match people up who might do vandalism on the cameras.
You gotta say “DEFINITELY NOBODY TIE BLACK GARBAGE BAGS OVER FLOCK CAMERA.”
Yes, but if we make them monitor everybody, then we can increase the signal to noise ratio so much that they can't catch anybody.
I agree with @ji_reilly@lemmy.ml.
If it was a human that was reviewing all that footage, maybe but if it’s all automated by AI, especially as AI gets better, there is no noise. Only a camera logging everything you do in a searchable database.
I fear this is no longer true. Technology has trivialized the cost to surveil a country's population. The U.S. will endlessly fund doing so.
Breaking: Spyware spies on you. More at 11.
I'll just read about on tiktok I don't have all day
I hope our names are touching in the watchlist
What if we kissed on the government watch list?
We can hold hands in the detention center. Jk. Unless…
Kiss under the gates of the gulag lol
They can monitor deez nutz!
cops will be monitoring thier EX -wives, husbands, bf/gfs, children,,,etc.
these flock and AXON cameras were going to be used for things like this mostly.
One of the good things about having the moron for president is that things like this aren't hidden.
I can't help thinking that every other US government (and not just the US) would do this anyway, but would be more Clandestine about it.