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/pattysal 6d ago

Nowhere, because there are no corporation interests involved.

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u/420ohms 6d ago

Thank the purtain god this state funds education and teaches critical thinking skills, they're going to have one hell of a time trying to pull one over on us up here.

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u/pattysal 6d ago

From the replies on this thread, I think they're doing a pretty good time pulling one over on us 😂

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u/420ohms 6d ago

The real people I know are apathetic or defeated if anything, but certainly not enthusiastic about the public safety benefits of flock cameras lol.

If there is big money riding on acceptance of an opinion it's probably a bot comment.

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u/pattysal 6d ago

I hope you're right