Drone rabbit hole
This is the article where my rabbit hole began. The recent DJI drone ban is coinciding with an American company Skydio supplying drones to police forces. 320 agencies have bought them in all 50 states
The Chula Vista Police Department, not too far from me, has drones flying overhead daily. They started the program in 2018. I read a full Wired article, but this Twitter thread has the key points.
I watched this interview with the chief of police, just skipped around to her parts. She heard the complaints from activists about the dystopian nature of the program. Her opinion is this is like futuristic tech from The Jetsons cartoon. Her colleague made a realistic A.I. avatar of her with her speaking voice. They haven't used it for communications yet, because they're considering the ethics
This comment led me to fake license plates, tinted windows, the grey market of avoiding the law while driving
In this article I found that black drivers are more likely to get tinted windows for protection/anonymity, which leads to more officers pulling them over. This has escalated to being killed by cops
Some police departments are scaling back their traffic stops, sort of in response to bad press over the past decade. You can see filmed police encounters all over social media and YouTube
I'm now convinced that Kick is the new deep web. Twitch was banning influencers who streamed crypto gambling, funded by the site they used. That company paid streamers to leave Twitch and join their new platform Kick. Months ago Kick had a program where they'd pay new creators $16 an hour as long as you stream the required hours per week, like a job. Now people are livestreaming themselves committing crimes on Kick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asP_q_Ye9Hg
So it's like we're living under the boot of surveillance capitalism, and it's the outlaw wild west out there