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by globalnode 125 days ago
flock safety were in one of y combinators incubator programs but to be fair, saying you want to make a camera company to improve public safety but then being used in a dystopian way... well it should have been foreseeable shouldn't it? Im conflicted in this, I love camera tech and its probably not going away any time soon, but wonder how it could be used responsibly for public safety only.
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They actively WANT the dystopian surveillance state.
Lot of money to be made for anyone who gets to pull the strings in such a state.
Yeah I suspect defence-oriented startups massively out-perform most categories
Source? That’s a substantial claim on a platform run by Y Combinator.