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  • Am I the only one here who doesnt really care that the government is watching me all the time? London effectively eliminated violent crime by watching everyone all the time, doesnt seem to bad to me.
    by HDThoreaun
  • Why does anyone working in tech still even live in SF? I left during covid and have never looked back.
    by ginkgotree
  • > 31 members — 13 of whom were absent

    Dammit

    by smallmancontrov
  • Incredible goof for the head of public affairs at Flock Safety to not abstain from even an internal party vote.
    by aw4rzs
  • > Two Democratic committee members work for Flock, but were allowed to vote regardless

    The only appropriate response to this is "What the fuck?"

    by sebmellen
  • It boggles my mind that Dorsey is even welcome in the SF Dem Party space after he posted on Twitter that mass amounts of civilians in Gaza welcome being killed by missiles:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Daf9d_7mh22/?img_index=2

    I know SF supervising has 0 to do with the Middle East. But if he thinks like this about groups he doesn't like, what about when one of his constituents is part of a group he doesn't like?

    Also crazy that 2 of the 20-ish members were employees of Flock and allowed to vote on this

    by aprilthird2021
  • I'm generalizing the political groups involved, but I don't understand how anyone who is conscious and/or cautious of AI safety, perhaps to the point of regulation, would then support the usage of AI-assisted surveillance.
    by tcdent
  • > Both sides acknowledged that the city’s Flock camera data was illegally accessed more than 1.6 million times in 2024 and 2025, with lots of those searches reaching out-of-state agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And, more recently the San Francisco Police Department admitted around 300 out-of-state illegal searches had happened in the last year.

    If the abolition movement wants progress we should start throwing white collar criminals that allow this to happen in prison. See how quickly those with power will start considering transformative/restorative justice alternatives

    We already have laws making a lot of what Flock does illegal. We just don't enforce them

    by culi

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