>The issue here is the Flock business model, which subsidizes the deployment of these cameras and encourages municipalities to use them in these dystopic ways.
It seems that the core issue is identified here...
Do I have that correct -- or do you wish to add something or delete or change something?
Questions:
How is the Flock business model (i.e., trade goods and/or services for money) any different than that of any other business?
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How is Apple or Google or any other Smartphone vendor any different in selling public-facing video cameras to the public?
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How is any Wireless Service provider (including but not limited to: Verizon, T-Mobile, Boost, Cricket, Wal-Mart, Tracfone, Wal-Mart, AT&T etc., etc.) that subsidizes the purchase (deployment) of Smartphones with public-facing video cameras, different than the Flock business model?
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If municipalities are government entities and presumably "for the people by the people" -- then how specifically does Flock "encourage municipalities to use them in these dystopic ways?"
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Do municipalities think for themselves?
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Or do they have external companies do their thinking for them?
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If so, then how is this possible, specifically, and exactly?
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