Republican Rep. Scott Perry and Democratic Senate candidate Adbul El-Sayed are politically and ideologically opposed — but they’re united against Flock.
Flock Safety’s artificial-intelligence-powered license plate readers and surveillance systems have proliferated in the United States over the past few years, prompting national concern about privacy and a bipartisan backlash that has created some unlikely — if temporary — alliances between otherwise ideologically opposed lawmakers and political hopefuls.
They include Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry and Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Adbul El-Sayed. The two couldn’t be farther apart on the political and ideological spectrum.
Perry once led the House’s ultraconservative Freedom Caucus and pushed the “great replacement” conspiracy theory touted by white nationalists; El-Sayed is the first Muslim nominated by Democrats for U.S. Senate and a progressive running on the issue of Medicare for All. But when it comes to what to do about Flock’s nationwide surveillance network, the pair have seemingly found common ground.
We really need to stop saying “flock”…
And start saying “automated 24/7 surveillance”
Or it’s gonna end up like when the Colt AR15 was banned and then a hundred other companies produced them…
Or how the only guy that can’t legally sell the Hoffman Super Selecter (makes a semiauto AR essentially full auto) is Steve Hoffman the guy who created it and made it available without a patent.
Legislating brand names is a waste of time, and I feel like Republicans are trying to get involved to “compromise” to keep something identical or even worse, just not called Flock.