• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 days ago

    “This is a chilling statement,” he told Mother Jones. “Even if it were a joke, it was clearly designed to make the public afraid to exercise its First Amendment rights to protest and to hold government officials, including LAPD officers, accountable for their actions.”

    Fuck this timeline. Resist. They don’t have enough people to get to us all unless we are compliant.

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      They don’t have enough people to get to us all unless we are compliant.

      This is incorrect. They absolutely have enough people to monitor the feeds for detected people and collect people up individually after the fact, which is exactly what the speakers/statements are alluding to.

      This is why “AI” bullshit is bullshit. This is why cameras on literally every traffic light is bad. This is what a lot of people have been screaming since 9/11. With the TSA and other organizations collecting information all willy nilly.