Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics

I wonder if Flock and Cyble can be sued for fraud. There are five elements to a fraud:

  Misrepresentation of Fact
  Knowledge of Falsity
  Intent to Induce Reliance 
  Justifiable Reliance 
  Resulting Damages

The local credit union in Eugene had installed Flock cams at the entrances to all their branches. They took em down after only a few of our community members began protests out front a few branches and emailing with the CU's leadership before our city terminated our contract and removed the cams

Problem is they have way more money to fight and that’s basically their whole playbook. I was caught up in a fraudulent libel claim that had to settle* back in the Twitter days. When those companies want to come after you, it’s really hard to fight back.

* no money was exchanged just some guarantees to not disclose their client and remove tweets.

The pointless social issues are manufactured specifically in order to distract Americans from the fact they are being treated like cattle.

> Wild that Americans are so distracted

There is a tonne of civic action against Flock, specifically, in the works, in many cases with successful results.

America is huge and there's a lot of exceptionally stupid people especially in the South and Midwest.

Not much I can do about that over here in the coastal Northeast.

Like what?

One long-standing code is that they moderate YC companies less on HN, allowing criticisms like yours to stand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34320816

To HN's credit I haven't seen this rule violated.

For example I wouldn't have known it was a YC company if not for your comment.

yeah their code of ethics is to laugh all the way to the bank and be untouchable. nothing will happen to them from YC.

Are dang and tomhow involved at all in YC member ethics? I expect they know about ethical behavior on HN.

First time?

So these are the scumbags putting cameras in front of schools and sending tickets to people on Sundays. Thank you for making peoples lives materially WORSE.

In the sense that the US has been anti-intellectualist for decades, I'm kind of ok with it. All the kids who fucked around in school and picked on the nerds for just existing are kind of getting their comeuppance. It's definitely cut off your nose to spite your face type shit, but does give me a little bit of joy. "You stuffed me in a locker and destroyed my social life because I read a book at lunch. I'm going to automate your job away and help billionaires make sure you'll never rise out of poverty."

it’s important to contextualize that quote: he called them dumbfucks specifically because they trusted him with their data.