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- Hacker News
- "Founded in 2017, Flock raised money at a valuation of more than $8 billion in a funding round that closed in April."
- It would be nice to think this will significantly hamper Flock and its goals and methods in any way, but it will probably just have the effect of selecting for the employees who are either true believers, or are desperate enough that they'll keep their heads down and get good work done just to keep their jobs.
Sporadic vandalism, a handful of canceled contracts, some employee morale problems, all of this falls far short of the organized campaign of resistance that would be needed to roll back Flock at this point. Flock really should be the last nail in the coffin of Edward Snowden's libertarian take that mass surveillance can be fought only with individual action and technology rather than political movements.
- I wonder if something similar will happen to Palantir et al.by 0x737368
- My city right outside Austin scrapped it. Its even split between red and blue voters and support for abandoning flock was overwhelmingly in favor of abandoning. Makes me feel good to see others banding together for positive change in today’s political climate in the USA….even if the motivation comes from self interest (too used to “get your government hands off of my medicaid/care” deluded thinking).
- by babelfish
- Why are they doing this when they're hiring:
- > “Because you go on to X or you go on to Reddit and you go, why are people so mad at us when we've been doing the same thing for nine years?” Langley said. “And why are they so mad at us for things we don't do? And we just want people to be safe.”
I can't believe this is being said with a straight face. "We've been dumping chemicals in this river for a decade, why are people getting so mad about it now (when they are finally finding out more about it)?". Completely absurd.
Couple that with "we just want people to be safe", sorry but ignoring the abuses of the system (which they tacitly allow due to lack of safeguards) is not acceptable.
by joshstrange - Flock seeks to shed whistleblowers via financially-motivated self selection
> And we just want people to be safe.
We’d all be safer if we were in jail (sorry to give the clown ideas)
by Barbing