I had to double-check what Deflock was for:

DeFlock's mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.

This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.

Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?

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This is just a play out of the rules for radicals playbook: accuse others of what you are doing.

It lost all meaning the second Bush declared the "War on Terror".

It means 'Enemy of the rich' now

e: important clarification, by rich I mean billionaires who own the majority of everything and not successful doctors, engineers or movie stars. Know your classes, kids

That's partly the point. Use words that accurately describe your evil group to incorrectly describe other groups and all of a sudden the words lose meaning and nobody can call you that anymore. Hooray!

In the UK the term is defined by the government as anyone who is deemed by the government a threat to the government or the people or someone's property or the predominant local religion. But recently it's been exclusively used for the first one. In this country state law is valued higher than corporate, moral, ethical and religious laws, so YMMV

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Terrorism: interpretation. (Terrorism Act 2000)

(1)In this Act “terrorism” means the use or threat of action where— (a)the action falls within subsection (2), (b)the use or threat is designed to influence the government [or an international governmental organisation] or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and (c)the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious [, racial] or ideological cause.

(2)Action falls within this subsection if it— (a)involves serious violence against a person, (b)involves serious damage to property, (c)endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action, (d)creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or (e)is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.

(3)The use or threat of action falling within subsection (2) which involves the use of firearms or explosives is terrorism whether or not subsection (1)(b) is satisfied.

(4)In this section— (a)“action” includes action outside the United Kingdom, (b)a reference to any person or to property is a reference to any person, or to property, wherever situated, (c)a reference to the public includes a reference to the public of a country other than the United Kingdom, and (d)“the government” means the government of the United Kingdom, of a Part of the United Kingdom or of a country other than the United Kingdom.

(5)In this Act a reference to action taken for the purposes of terrorism includes a reference to action taken for the benefit of a proscribed organisation.
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It means "me no like."

It never had meaning. To instill deep fear. Doing violent acts with the purpose of achieving a political end.

It's always been super broad and just waiting for a domestic party to adopt the tactics of Israel's occupied territories here in the US, that's where this was always heading.

Flock is a state sponsored terrorist organization.

Did it ever stop?

Spoken like an antifa, uh, 3 star general. Get him boys! /s The future is a lot dumber than we might have thought.

So... Flock have literally described themselves as fascist...

Their what?

This guy is the coolest type of hacker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKr3Acrovio

This dude also has some solid videos on flock (and other things). Everyone should know that cities and towns are kicking flock out left and right. Use this momentum to organize against them in your town too!

Same for me. In addition to deflock.me and haveibeenflocked.com, are there any community resource sites for finding others in the same city that would be willing to start pushing on the city to cancel their contract?

My city is one of the few in my county that doesn't have a contract with flock, but the county was nice enough to put them up around town anyway.

A question to nobody in particular: would it be possible to make license plate covers that are made out of the same material as those anti-facial recognition glasses?

I believe the collection of the information is inevitable. What I would push for instead of driving them to make the cameras and databases more clandestine than they already are is for the information that they collect to be made openly available to all.

As things are, it's a very asymmetrical power tool for the advantage of the (government) operators.

When ALL the information is available to everyone, we can talk about where the cameras do and do not need to be. And any unapproved cameras can be suppressed as evidence against private individuals.

My guess (emphasis "guess") is either some contractual bullshit or a result of state law superseding local law.

Fascism. The only thing that matters is power and deception.

That will just be replaced with asking them to define terrorism and watching them sputter.

Yes. Always.

Paintball guns are very effective in (temporarily) blinding these cams and you can keep your distance.

Also harsh cleaning chemicals like Windex with Ammonia will degrade the IR/anti-glare coatings horribly and will lead to unusable shots within a season or two.