Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Jupe 238 days ago
So, rather than Big Brother being government-imposed monitoring paid for by all taxpayers, the concerned citizenry is flipping the bill for the devices, network connectivity and electricity. Fascinating.
4 comments

always, flock just charges local governments and then charges the police too to get access. They get us coming and going, and yet most crimes and murders go unsolved still. If a cop can track his Ex through hundreds of cams, why aren't the solve rates better? (Its not about crime)
Tax payers and citizenry are largely the same. It's not really flipping the bill.
Yep, it's like we speedran 1984 but made it a startup
That's just capitalism vs socialism. In communist countries, the state provides the surveillance. In capitalist America, the consumers pay for state surveillance.