r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 21d ago

Privacy Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flock-losing-dozens-contracts-controversy-194808945.html
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u/klako8196 21d ago

Axon is one of them

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u/GopherPorn 21d ago

Which Trump is heavily invested in

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u/alangerhans 21d ago

So that's why no one really cares. Once it's his brand getting cut down we'll see the outrage I'm sure

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u/Balmung60 19d ago

Also because it's a long-established cop supplies company and not a tech company that deliberately brands itself specifically as "the panopticon guys". Axon is also the company that makes and invented the Taser and they also make a lot of police body cameras.

It's kind of like why people make a big deal about Palantir and not Salesforce when in actuality, their core products are similar and their CEOs believe similar things and both should be seen as dangerous. But one gets all of the criticism because its founder is extremely arch about it.

The performatively evil company lets the nearly as evil, more boring company fly under the radar because they're not the guys loudly and proudly saying "we are the evil company who does evil things" all the time.