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🚨Tucker Carlson Warns About Flock Safety Surveillance Cameras- “US Is Becoming a Surveillance State”

The Daily Drop · 2 months ago

The short version: Tucker Carlson's viral pushback on Flock Safety shows ALPR surveillance concerns now cross the entire political spectrum, not just privacy advocates.

Our Take

When Tucker Carlson starts sounding like a civil liberties blogger, you know a surveillance story has broken containment. As covered by The Daily Drop, Carlson's criticism of Flock Safety isn't coming from the ACLU or EFF crowd he'd normally spar with — it's coming from someone with a massive audience on the right, which tells you this issue doesn't fit neatly into left-right boxes anymore. Cameras that log every car's location, timestamped and searchable, don't care about your party registration.

What's notable here isn't just the criticism of the technology itself, but the pushback on how Flock's leadership has reportedly characterized people raising concerns about it. Dismissing skeptics as fringe or paranoid gets a lot harder when a commentator with Carlson's reach is asking the same basic questions we've been asking: who has access to this data, how long is it kept, and why are taxpayers footing the bill for a system that can track their own movements without a warrant.

Cities walking back or declining Flock contracts didn't happen in a vacuum — it's the result of residents showing up to council meetings, filing records requests, and refusing to accept 'it's for public safety' as a complete answer. If this video has you wondering whether these cameras are already watching your neighborhood, check our camera map and see what you can do at take action.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Daily Drop, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.