In China they have cameras everywhere. I’m not a fan, but by most accounts the government doesn’t abuse this power much and it has made Chinese cities far safer. (If you want to argue they do abuse the power a lot, please look at incarceration per capita in China compared to the US. China seems to suck at police stateing. Yes, I know that’s not a word, but this is my blog and I’m going to use it anyway!)
In the US it’s flock cameras. They’re everywhere it seems.
⚠️Ten years ago we saw videos of China’s wall‑to‑wall cameras and said, “Glad that’s not us.”
Well… are we there yet?
HT: @jamesmadisonaudits pic.twitter.com/AfOR5WQCrx
— Jason Bassler (@JasonBassler1) June 17, 2026
Flock has recently expanded into other technologies, including advanced cameras that monitor more than just vehicles. Most concerning are the latest Flock drones equipped with high-powered cameras. Flock’s “Drone as First Responder” platform automates drone operations, including launching them in response to 911 calls or gunfire. Flock’s drones, which reach speeds up to 60 mph, can follow vehicles or people and provide information to law enforcement.
The key thing here is that police can get this data easily, without a warrant. Even if you’re smart enough to leave your phone at home, pretty soon they’ll be able to track everything you do. This data will be stored, and if it’s ever time to get you, they will have years of data. What was innocuous at the time (that organization wasn’t on the watch list when you were involved) can be used against you, especially since America’s laws are so labyrinthine that practically everyone has committed something a prosecutor could call a crime.
And the idea that only police will have access to the data is laughable.
Trust America to create a panopticon which is worse than a government controlled one. Not only does the government get your 24/7 activities, but so can corporations and connected rich people.
God bless the Free market.
Old timers will know I used to write a lot about the coming surveillance society. Well, it’s pretty close to her. Less than five years, I’d guess, and anonymity will be essentially totally gone. Welcome to fishbowl world.
I also wrote many years ago that I’d know people were getting serious about freedom when they started destroying surveillance cameras, and there’s some signs of that:
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: People are straight-up DESTROYING Flock cameras across the country right now.
They’re out at night with power tools, sparks flying, cutting these surveillance poles down like it’s nothing.
Is this the start of a real privacy uprising… or just reckless… https://t.co/GYWmc1DFOF pic.twitter.com/WaMdqo5rH4
— Noah B. Price (@TrueOnX) July 2, 2026
A sliver of a silver lining, but better than nothing.
As for China, the CPC may be using this mostly responsibly, but it’s a loaded gun waiting to picked up when the government turns tyrannical and if history tells us anything it’s that over a hundred years or so, that’s almost guaranteed.
A surveilled world may be safer in some ways, but the price is significant.
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“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on.”
– Oracle CEO Zionist billionaire oligarch Larry Ellison, September 2024
As seen on video at the 5:33 mark in the following 14-minute clip:
“Harrison H. Smith – I might get killed for posting this, the least you could do is watch it.” – 22.6M views
https://x.com/HarrisonHSmith/status/2018753453544124833
Cameras + Internet/phone surveillance + AI + rising Zionist-driven fascism in Oceania (aka The West) is a recipe for George Orwell’s 1984’s Big Brotherism
Each of those parts is relentlessly increasing, and checks and balances are crumbling. Gaza is a microcosm of that surveillance + AI + Zionist fascism.
ICE in the US and the wave of arrests for tweets or holding anti-genocide signs in the UK show the direction.
Outrage as UK Activists Get Combined 25 Yrs for ‘Terrorism’
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/06/13/outrage-as-uk-activists-get-combined-25-yrs-for-terrorism/
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It’s good to see Mamdani has already dismantled New York City’s massive, sprawling surveillance system.
https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-mamdanis-surveillance-state/
Although Mamdani’s mayoral campaign was defined by his relentless emphasis on affordability, the looming battles with the Trump administration over immigration enforcement and the breakneck buildout of the NYPD’s already formidable surveillance arsenal under Adams means he will be forced to reckon with the police department’s spying programs.
”Mass surveillance endangers all values at the heart of our democracy, and I do hope that our next mayor is willing to be a spokesperson for this cause,” says STOP’s Fox Cahn. “You can’t be a sanctuary city and a surveillance state—you can’t promise to protect undocumented neighbors and provide a data pipeline to ICE.”
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Minor edit: policy stateing == police stateing.
I assume….