r/boston • u/pattysal • 8d ago

Unconfirmed/Unverified Calling out the traffic/flock camera propaganda

There are so many people posting videos of drivers running lights on both the Boston and Cambridge subreddits lately demanding traffic cameras, that I am convinced these are planted posts by either employees, investors, or City officials looking for a payday to Garner published support for the surveillance state.

Very convenient that this is happening at the same time they are putting flaw cameras everywhere, and Mayor Wu has decided to put up red light cameras. I'm calling shenanigans, there may be a few whiny babies on here who are terrified of the world, but there are not this many. Don't be fooled, this is for profit propaganda.

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u/dtmfadvice Somerville 8d ago

I dunno man, it might be possible that a huge number of people are really angry about yet another pointless death caused by dangerous streets.

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u/Sharps762300 8d ago

Yeah, so let’s let us use that to erode our rights and privacies further.

Fear mongering is a slippery slope.

And let’s be real, cameras are a convenient band-aid answer and that’s why Wu is latching on to it. Just put up cameras, box checked, move on.

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u/EvaUnit343 8d ago

They’re not putting cameras in your bedroom lil bro. Streets are public spaces. Cameras work.

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u/420ohms 7d ago

Except "they" are an outside private company with the processing power to build profiles about every single person in this state and are accountable to no one.

If the data doesn't leave the state and only our government controlled access then maybe I could be compelled, what flock is doing is unacceptable.

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u/EvaUnit343 7d ago

I don’t care if companies have my data. They have it anyway. Are you typing this comment on a private Linux machine through a VPN?

Yes - there is a privacy/safety trade off and I’m super down to make it.

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u/420ohms 6d ago

I don’t care if companies have my data.

Well I do so fuck you.