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Posted by cdrnsf 15 hours ago

Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video](www.youtube.com)
603 points | 419 commentspage 6
Psillisp 10 hours ago|
If Deflock is 'closer to Antifa than anything else' logically where does that place Flock?

Flock is Fa---

IAmGraydon 7 hours ago||
This is how all authoritarians of the far right react when they are threatened. Take note - it means you're doing the right thing.
insane_dreamer 5 hours ago||
is there a list of municipalities where Flock has installed cameras? I'd like to check if they're in our town
mvdtnz 3 hours ago||
What's Flock? What's Deflock? Why should I care? There's absolutely no context but just another smug American with that same accent as all the other smug American dickhead CEOs speaking in that exact American CEO way they all do (is there like a school or something they all go to?).
cmurf 14 hours ago||
Winning local elections means having the political power and thus economic power to Deflock your town.

Telling illiberal authoritarians to go fuck themselves is reasonable. But power is still more important than insults.

cdrnsf 13 hours ago|
Our city council voted 5-0 to install more. A unanimous vote which includes democrats who ran on disrupting a council that had the same members for decades.
rationalist 12 hours ago||
It seems like at the next open mic, people should read FOIA'ed Flock records which shows their car driving by adult store etc.
jimt1234 10 hours ago||
He's looking for air cover from MAGA, trying to get on Trump's radar. Flock is law-and-order. DeFlock is Antifa.
rcakebread 13 hours ago||
Someone just had to come up with the goofy name "antifa" instead of just using "anti fascist".
Y-bar 13 hours ago||
It was originally shortened in German from ”Antifaschistische Aktion” and ”Außerparlamentarische Opposition”. Then that carried over to other languages as a common name. Feel free to go back to the roots! ;)
Fnoord 6 hours ago||
It was shortened as the acronym AFA.
GuinansEyebrows 13 hours ago||
disregarding the history of the term, you see that even posters on Hacker News Dot Com dispute the accuracy of the term "fascism" as applied to contemporary american politics, so what difference would it make? people who are okay with fascistic politics will not distinguish opposition with a name change.
aussieguy1234 10 hours ago||
Those are the same words fascists would use to describe peaceful activist groups such as Deflock.

It makes me wonder what his values are.

ChrisArchitect 14 hours ago||
5 months ago;

Source article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/03/ai-st...

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119847

and at the same time:

Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45128605

rationalist 14 hours ago|
The parent's entire original comment in case anyone is wondering why it was flagged:

> 5 months ago? c'mon OP

Thankfully OP is posting about it again, because I missed it the first time. Thank you OP!

da_grift_shift 14 hours ago||
Saw that too.
ChrisArchitect 14 hours ago||
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unethical_ban 8 hours ago|
We're so busy thinking about if we can enable omnipresent AI surveillance, we didn't stop to think of we should.

We must, as a society, reject the full capability of technology to observe the public.

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