US School banning books
The short version: A UK-based mass-surveillance channel ties school book bans to the broader creep of control-oriented tech, a reminder that information control and camera control come from the same playbook.
Our Take
This one comes from the Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency channel, which usually trains its lens on the UK but occasionally zooms out to look at American trends — in this case, book banning in US schools. We're flagging it here not because it's about license plate readers directly, but because the instinct behind it rhymes with everything we cover: who gets to decide what information citizens can access, and who's watching when they try.
Book bans and ALPR networks aren't the same policy, but they come from the same impulse — centralizing control over what people can see, read, and do, often with little public debate and even less accountability. Flock Safety's cameras have spread to thousands of communities with almost no legislative scrutiny, quietly building a database of everyone's movements. That's a different kind of restriction than pulling a book off a shelf, but it's restriction all the same: narrowing the space where people can act without being logged, tracked, or flagged.
We don't take a political side on curriculum fights. We do think it's worth noticing when multiple fronts of control — information, movement, data — start advancing at once. If you want to see how much of that infrastructure has already landed in your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has a place to start. Credit to the creator for keeping an eye on these overlapping threats even outside their usual UK focus.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.