Comment Believe them when they tell you who they are (Score 4, Insightful) 36
"And then unfortunately there's terroristic organizations like [DeFlock] whose primary motivation is chaos ... They are closer to Antifa than they are anything else." Garrett Langley, Flock founder and CEO
Sure, he apologized recently once he started losing revenue. I am very doubtful that the apology was genuine. Someone who thought that creating a map was equivalent to terrorism (and happens to share MAGA's obsession with a make-believe version of Antifa) probably didn't have a total about-face change of heart to realize that building a total surveillance state might give people legitimate worries about abuse of the system.
Sure, he apologized recently once he started losing revenue. I am very doubtful that the apology was genuine. Someone who thought that creating a map was equivalent to terrorism (and happens to share MAGA's obsession with a make-believe version of Antifa) probably didn't have a total about-face change of heart to realize that building a total surveillance state might give people legitimate worries about abuse of the system.