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You’re very clearly defensive about defending flock installs, but yeah I will go back and edit my comment to clarify. Apologies your majesty for forgetting some punctuation while I was sick.

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The text "prevented further rollout and ultimately got the cameras shut down" is verbatim in their post maybe a few sentences after talking about how the muni piloted them.

I'm defensive about defending Flock installs? I'm one of a small minority of HN commenters that has actually gotten Flock cameras disabled across a municipality.

For what it's worth, your original comment is a little hard to parse, particularly because you say "our pilot deployment" which makes it sound like you were involved in deploying the cameras. Combined with your realpolitik comment about knowing your neighbors want them, I think several people are confused about your opinions and what you ended up doing to fight the cameras.

It isnt that hard to parse and it is very clear what position the commenter holds they state it

> I'm not reflexively anti-ALPR camera. I don't like them

Even LLMs can correctly parse this commenters intention.

I'm very disappointed reading the replies to your comment. It's pretty clear that most people just saw a long set of words that wasn't full-tilt negative and assumed you are pro-camera.

I read it and I admire what you accomplished!

Thanks! But I'm much more interested in just getting people to do local politics. It is nothing at all like national politics. The people you need to persuade aren't faceless, they're not a mass of people swayed by the media, the electeds will take your phone calls directly, you can go door-to-door to make things happen. I see so much nihilistic fatalism in these threads and I think most of it is based off a conception of politics rooted in, like, the shit Politico reports about.

Most of the stuff that really impacts your community, like Flock, is governed locally, by very small numbers of people.

Oh sorry I can’t read more than 1 sentence so I don’t know what I’m replying to, you’ll have to reword yours.

I love that you had to edit this from your original comment, which said "I can't read more than 2 sentences" (in response to my 2-sentence comment). Well played!

I love that I can keep you busy with nonsense commentary. You’re sweating trying to make sense of it all. Poorly played!

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