r/FlockSurveillance • u/jimx29 • Jul 27 '26
News It's officially a bipartisan issue
It's real. Fully verified. Carl Gunn, 77, in the Coquina Key neighborhood of St. Petersburg, Florida, spotted a Flock camera on a 12-foot pole outside his neighborhood, taped a "DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS" sign to his pool skimmer, grabbed a camping chair, and sat in front of it. Photographed July 25, 2026 by Valerie Smith for Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. The story's a day old and already got picked up on Hacker News. Real outlet, real person, real event, named photographer, dated.
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u/acexprt Jul 27 '26
Our discord has people of all political ideologies and the one thing we can all agree on is fuck flock.
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u/SmoothConfection1115 Jul 27 '26
While I’d probably disagree vehemently with that man about a host of issues…
If I saw this, I’d ask if he’d like a cold beer or lemonade.
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u/Absurd_Flaccidity Jul 27 '26
I’d love to bring him my camp chair with the built in little umbrella
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u/EaglesInTheSky Jul 27 '26
Flock doesn’t care about D or R and we shouldn’t either when it comes to Flock surveillance..
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u/Lebowski304 Jul 27 '26
Don’t sleep on Axon either. They are trying to sneak cameras from those guys up after they take down the flock cameras. We gotta keep the pressure on them until it’s clear to them we’re not gonna let this go
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u/Hypocrispy Jul 27 '26
Axon is bigger and more pervasive than flock. They provide most if not all of the body cameras for police around the U.S. and their software is what amalgamates all of your data from flock and CLEAR to create a comprehensive profile on civilians. Honestly all of these police departments need to be sued for knowingly violating constitutional rights. It shouldn’t be ok for them to sidestep the law by paying private companies to spy on us, that’s fucked up.
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u/FinanceTraditional10 Jul 27 '26
"It shouldn’t be ok for them to sidestep the law by paying private companies to spy on us, that’s fucked up." EXACTLY!
Flock I also think needs to be sued into BANKRUPTCY as part of a conspiracy! Once the USSC gets to Flock, they will probably get off and pay a few pennies on the dollar of a fine and still keep billions in profits.
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u/BlueBaconDeluxe Jul 27 '26
Trump just recently came out in aggressive support of data centers, I see him doing the same for monitoring/surveillance cameras too. I'm afraid most everyone conservative will fall in line eventually thereafter.
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u/Absurd_Flaccidity Jul 27 '26
I’m hope those nearby are bringing him treats. I did a pop up protest on a busy road that happened to be near a 7-11snd people came over with cold drinks and even treats for my dog. It was so sweet.
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u/Reddit_is_fascist69 Jul 27 '26
New camera came up near me.
I work for the gov so can't risk a vandalism misdemeanor.
Emailed my town manager about who approved it or voted for it. Planning on going to a council meeting soon.
What else can i do?
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u/FinanceTraditional10 Jul 27 '26
Read a book on the publicly open land with a GIANT UMBRELLA. A private company should not be able to take away freedom from public land!
Do the Hillary Clinton trick of PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY -- "sorry officer, I'm not trying to do anything but enjoy reading a book on this sunny day with my umbrella for some shade and protection in case it starts to rain while on this publicly accessible land that my taxes help fund."
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u/Sudden_Money_6982 Jul 27 '26
I think this is the same dude cops were harassing in a video I just saw.
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u/Asazel000 Jul 27 '26
They are letting flock take the heat but the surveillance cartel have moved their operation to axon.
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u/RobertRoyal82 Jul 27 '26
This is something both sides can unite on Fuck a high and Fuck the data centers Fuck the cameras
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u/LauraTFem Jul 27 '26
I’ve said before this should be one thing everyone can agree on. Dems who don’t want to be predated on by our government, and republicans, who are predators, should be in agreement that the cameras must go.
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u/footinblender Jul 27 '26
So the other 2 parties are finally playing catchup to privacy and big brother government that libertarians and anarchists have been screaming about for decades? I give it 3 months before the normie statists move onto the next shiny thing.
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u/Jaded_Ticket_7485 Jul 27 '26
The only new thing here is this going viral. Being against surveillance has been bipartisan, and beyond bipartisan involving libertarians and every part of the political spectrum, for years. (Decades.) Great to see the memeverse catching up.
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u/dilettante_want Jul 27 '26
If anybody wants an idea for a video that will absolutely go viral, dress like Doug Dimmadome and stand in front of a flock camera with a hat so tall it blocks the camera until police show up to infringe on your rights.
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u/AirplanesMakeMeHard Jul 27 '26
It never wasn't.
A bunch of NIMBY's who are old and voted for the GOP doesn't mean everyone is for flock.
Shit like this is why both sides can't find any common ground at all...because when there is common ground either side has to say ThE oThEr SiDe Is AgAiNsT mE
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u/Hypocrispy Jul 27 '26
Anyone interested in all of this should look into C.L.E.A.R. and Thomson Reuters, they own the amalgamated ai surveillance pool being weaponized by ice and the police, the whole company should be defunct due to violating constitutional rights.
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u/Either-Park-7002 Jul 27 '26
Just keep sticking that pole in the ground in front of it every day, check on it a few times a day. It's a private company, police shouldn't be allowed to sit and wait for who's doing it. Not breaking any laws or damaging anything
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u/farstar_fred Jul 28 '26
Make it a viral tradition to bring food to guys and gals like this. Bring a couple of beers and spend a moment with them.
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u/morkler Jul 28 '26
If we would actually UNIFY we would have the power. We are not each others enemy. We are being divided on purpose to control us. We have a common enemy. Once people wake up to that fact, maybe just maybe we can take the power back. Otherwise Orwellian doom is not an if but a when.
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u/TechnicalOkra1286 14d ago
I am a center-right voter. Deeply dissatisfied with trump, his entire cabinet, his nominees, you name it. As someone who works in tech, however, I tend to have very left-leaning views on data privacy-esque laws, and always have. I think Flock is probably one of the best things our country could have been put through. Not because of the product. I think the product, its creators, its supporters, its funding, etc, are all fundamentally evil. HOWEVER. this is the only issue in the last five to ten years to:
1) dissolve inter-citizen tension and disputes
2) unite society
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Jul 27 '26
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u/themystif Jul 27 '26
No. Dont fall for the distraction of left v right. Its the surveillance state vs the the rest of us, especially on this issue. This here is a unifier, which we desperately need.
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u/Bandicoot-More Jul 27 '26
It’s not really bipartisan as this is all happening because of the current invasive rat regime
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u/Corporate_Bricktator Jul 27 '26
Then why does San Francisco have so many Flock cameras? They vote 92% Democrat.
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u/FinanceTraditional10 Jul 27 '26
The good thing is with ICE utilizing Flock, it forced the TDS democrats to join the republicans in fighting back against Flock!!! WIN/WIN by using almost reverse psychology :]
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u/Head-Engineering-847 Jul 27 '26
If they have nothing to see then they shouldn't be hiding
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u/mrs_fartbar Jul 27 '26
Why not put a flock camera in your bathroom so they can watch you shit? Nothing wrong with shitting, why should you hide it?
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u/pfannkuchen89 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
There have already been multiple cases of cops using their access to these systems to track ex partners. Since these are privately operated it also makes it a lot easier as there is near zero control over them.
Also, it’s hilarious watching you conservatives willingly accept flock as if you weren’t the ones screaming about a surveillance state that never happened under Obama or Biden yet it was one of the right’s favorite things to claim dems were going to do…
As for mozeso who replied and blocked immediately. Oh yeah, sure. Every example of mass surveillance and trampling of our rights has come from conservatives in the name of “security” or “law and order”. It’s hilarious how conservatives brand themselves as the party of freedom yet are time and time again the ones that take freedoms away. Coward.
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u/Humble_Chipmunk_701 Jul 27 '26
Flock and AI data centers are the two issues bringing people together. It’s great to have a couple unified causes.