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    They aren’t common in the places I typically shop, at least not yet.

    So, around here, when you see these, you know you’re in an unsafe part of town, so they’re essentially a huge advertisement to go shop some place safer and nicer. The privacy invasion aspect of it isn’t even really the biggest factor in regards to where I spend my money.

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    Technology like this always brings up the balance between safety and privacy. It’s important that communities keep having open conversations about where that line should be.

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      It isn’t necessarily a linear correlation where you can pick the cutoff that best suits your personality and politics.

      The technology and the act of surveillance don’t just slide you up the safety/privacy slope. They carry their own risks that can REDUCE safety while still paying the privacy trade off. And it is not predictable.

      And that (plus caring about people) is why I don’t support the Leopards Eating Faces coalition even though I’m an old white educated native-born male USian.

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              Don’t vandalise the privatised mass surveillance state devices that municipal gov, cops and ICE pay to use and expand the Peter Theil (he knooows about the anti christ btw) MAGA network in order to track everyone they can in the nazi country building up to death camps. Message recieved, copy that fellow citizen.

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    The first time I saw one of these was at a Fourth of July gathering in a public park. I saw the high blue lights and I figured it was marking some kind of portable police resource center. I had imagined some basic first aid and some officers ready for emergency assistance. I had imagined something that was partly a service and partly community outreach. I had imagined something with positive features.

    I was so disappointed to find out it was just cameras. Quite an emotional trip in my head there, from “We’re here to help!” to “We’re watching you, fuckers” in the space of a moment.

    But I guess the cops in my suburb are no better than the cops in any other suburb.

    • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yeah we’ve got a bunch of these in our neighborhood. It’s a rundown area but this just makes it worse. I’d love nothing more than to mask up and smash this shit

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        *Mask up and disassemble that shit for parts on the spot. Make it serve the people, rather than spy on them.