Facebook Bought a Police Force

Several years ago there were protests in Anaheim over some police incident. If you go about a mile north east of Disneyland, it’s a rough area. Anyway the protests started around that area and made their way towards Disneyland. Anaheim PD came out in paramilitary showmanship. It literally looked like PD was about to go to war with all of those armored vehicles PDs bought after the last Middle East invasion. They had sharpshooters on the roof too. They were trying to keep the protestors from stepping foot onto the Disneyland property. So yes, it’s common to defend the hand that feeds you and it’s no surprise FB has Menlo Park PD on speed dial.

Child’s play. Try being Apple and getting the police to break a number of laws to raid a reporters home. Apple pays for California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team: https://publicintelligence.net/rapid-enforcement-allied-comp...

I'd be the first to condemn police brutality but for the expensive property they have in the police department's jurisdiction, Facebook paying what amounts to elective taxes in order to improve security seems totally reasonable.

As someone who does not use Facebook and considers it deeply flawed, nothing presented in the article should cause alarm and it only seems like a misguided attempt to discredit the company.

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