In their defense, Flock didn't start off quite this way. They were initially offering a product geared to HOAs and private entities to help with simple violations and things like that. At some point they stumbled on this loophole of allowing LEO's to sidestep restrictions on collecting and storing this kind of data, and then it took off. They were well past the YC investment at that point.

(and just to be clear, at this point I think that Flock has turned into an anti-Constitutional threat to US Citizens and should be wholesale banned and put out of business).

> I didn’t believe it at first, because I’ve always considered YC, in spite of its flaws, to be politically astute.

YC's current CEO is Garry Tan, who has a lot of ties to "effective accelerationism" and the "dark enlightenment" movement (The Curtis Yarvin/network state/cuckoo for cocoa puffs far-right tech broligarch movement that wants to end all democratic oversight of tech companies).

So, yeah, not only is Flock a YC company, but YC's current CEO produces a lot of propaganda for them. For example, this:

https://garryslist.org/posts/flock-found-more-stolen-cars-th...

...which is perhaps the most obviously Claude-generated AI slop content I have seen (and since the internet is becoming a firehose of this shit, I've seen quite a lot). Like somehow every fucking sentence in it is peak claude-slop.