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The short version: A meme-ranking of BigNateTV's Flock camera pranks shows how normalized ALPR surveillance has become — even as fodder for comedy.
Our Take
Chucklemaster_99's ranking of BigNateTV's Flock camera pranks is exactly what it sounds like: internet comedy, not investigative journalism. We're not here to review the punchlines. But it's worth pausing on what it says that license plate reader cameras have become common enough, and recognizable enough, to be a running gag on YouTube.
That's the quieter story here. A surveillance network that a few years ago most Americans had never heard of is now familiar enough to prank, meme, and rank top-three lists about. Normalization is how mass surveillance wins — not through some dramatic announcement, but through becoming background noise, a punchline, a thing everyone just accepts is bolted to a pole on their street.
If the video makes you wonder how many of these cameras are actually near you, skip the comedy and check our map for real locations. And if you'd rather do something about it than laugh at it, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back on Flock deployments in your own town.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Chucklemaster_99, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.