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Everyone saw this coming but it's terrifying to watch it become a reality.

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's a little weird to see them celebrating the surveillance state that they are creating. A system like this is wide open for abuse.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago

It is abuse.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There’s so Roko’s Basalisk shit going on with fascism like this.

If we build the surveillance state, surely we’ll be the ones to benefit from it. And if we don’t we’ll be punished by the people who do.

False. You’ll be punished anyways.

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Who could’ve predicted this?! Except literally everyone

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ring: Fuck it, we Flock now.

[–] Bomnam@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 20 hours ago

Funny enough they actually just recently ended their partnership with flock, possibly hinting that they're looking to compete with them.

[–] sbbq@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

I'm shocked, I tell you! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

They’re competing for government contracts and tax payer money, right?

[–] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Have any members of congress or state legislatures begun proposing bills to make this sort of surveillance system illegal?

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