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My town's covered with them already, without much warning in the local news, at least none I saw. And they're about to add 50% more all over the county. Planning on going to the zoning meeting Tuesday to speak against them. Also had a handful of yard signs printed up and put them at major intersections around town warning about the expansion, pointing people to the zoning meeting.

Very much not okay with this surveillance state bullshit.

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I don't believe a legal solution is possible. We need a three-tiered response to Flock's surveillance state business strategy, depending on what level of meddling each citizen is comfortable with.

1. Protest via yard signs and awareness (what you're doing)

2. Impermanent vandalism. I like the idea of hanging copies of the fourth amendment over the lenses

3. Permanent vandalism. I think we need bounties on camera destruction and public legal funds to assist in defense, bail, etc.

The police as a class/caste are not interested in the fundamental principles that America was founded on. Individual officers may be interested in civil freedom and privacy but as an entity they only ever march in the direction of total surveillance and domination of the citizenry.

Absolutely not. Horrible advice. You give the rest of us peaceful majority a bad name. Protest legally. Your post glows.

Genuinely effective protests are rarely entirely legal.

Who's more effective at protesting, USA or France?

And, which country routinely sets a bunch of shit on fire when they need to?

That's right.

America started with an illegal protest.

You'll never gain traction with your post on social internet forums like this despite the reality and truth of it. You'll be downvoted to quiet and eliminate your opinion.

In what possible way would the broader public destroying Flock cameras on sight and allying with one another to defend those caught doing it benefit intelligence agencies?

I would encourage you to add arrows to your signs/ stickers pointing out the cameras. More impactful when people see (and are unconsensually recorded by) the device first hand.

Good work!

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