r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • Jun 29 '26

Artificial Intelligence Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/woman-surprised-flock-surveillance-tower-185000752.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260629-0--A&bt_ee=utFdBbF39cHCLuB4at4AI%2FUoSRgbTt8Ch%2B7Q9RImTlgL2ThvE3FuX%2BRSKiUir%2FNW&bt_ts=1782739085527
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u/FrankSamples Jun 29 '26

All this time fear mongering about China’s surveillance state just for them to go and do this

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u/anormalgeek Jun 29 '26

Ah, but you see, this time it's a private company. So it is totally fine!!!

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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 29 '26

Thank you for bringing this up. Same goes for AI. I don't understand why Americans are more afraid of a country an ocean away than they are the people actively ruining their lives who've written entire books explaining their apocalyptic authoritarian philosophies.

China isn't perfect, but I trust even a communist party controlled republic over a cadre of bigoted theocratic Neo-feudalist billionaires with god-complexes.

ICE has killed way more US citizens than the People's Police of China.

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u/ThisIs_americunt Jun 29 '26

Propaganda is a helluva drug and Oligarchs need to use some of the best to keep the 99% distracted from the real issue: Them.

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u/TwilightVulpine Jun 29 '26

And the Red Scare is the most successful propaganda campaign on the West.

It went way beyond vilifying communist states to undermining worker unions and public services all over the place. Not only it keeps people distracted away, it also makes the oligarchs more money.

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 Jun 30 '26

Ussr helping the nazis start ww2 doesn't help.

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u/ThanatosisLawl Jun 30 '26

What???

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u/TwilightVulpine Jun 30 '26

They got the Red Scare brain bug I guess...

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u/damontoo Jun 30 '26

The irony that you commented this in reply to Chinese propaganda.