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Crackheads versus Palantir Spybox (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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Photo of a portable surveillance system with the caption “I'd rather see crackheads at the gas station than this stupid overstimulating surveillance state crap”
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[–] 64 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There's one of these in a shopping center around me. I flip it off every time I see it.

I mean, I deliberately drive near it, stop, roll down my window, put my arm out, and flip it off very intentionally.

I don't care if it knows me. I've made no secret of my hatred for authoritarianism throughout my life. I've gone to more protests than I can count. Besides, if authorities really wanted to do something to me, they'd readily make things up anyway. They don't need an excuse, so I might as well express myself.

This shit is dystopian as fuck and every time I see it or it blasts out its message about us being watched, it boils my blood.

Fuck it all. This is not okay.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    . . .flip it off very intentionally.

    Heehee I'm kinda glad I'm not alone here. I walk my neighborhood and people install those STUPID cameras facing the sidewalk to catch EVERYONE walking by, that whistle at you, or say "you are being recorded!"

    I give it the finger without looking at it basically as a reflex now. I've never even flipped someone off in traffic, I've been told I have the patience of a saint.

    But surveillance capitalism and stupid paranoid suburbanites satisfying their nosy-neighbor compulsions is definitely a line.

    We've got those stupid towers all over the place here too. Construction sites, parking lots.

    Freaking absurd. I'm upset that it's the best crime deterrent they can come up with, because I suppose skulky fellows lurking around dark parking lots aren't preferable either.

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