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Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program

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  1. smt88 · · focus · HN ↗
    How could those innocent employees have predicted that helping to build out a surveillance state would make them unpopular?
    1. SoftTalker · · focus · HN ↗
      I'm actually surprised. The usual thing is that people don't care, or think "I have nothing to hide" and just go on with their lives. That's mostly been the case with online surveillance, tracking, etc. done by Google, Meta, and the ad industry.

      For some reason, Flock became a rallying point on both the left and the right.

      1. Retr0id · · focus · HN ↗
        The bipartisan nature isn't that surprising, given that surveillance is more of an authoritarianism vs libertarianism issue i.e. orthogonal to left vs right (in an oversimplified kinda way).
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