The automated license plate readers aren’t popular with the public. Politicians are catching on.
Republicans and Democrats once praised Flock Safety as a protection tool for American communities. Now politicians across the political spectrum are turning against the mass-surveillance technology.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® froze state spending this week on the shoebox-size cameras that have proliferated across the nation.
The flow of taxpayer money halted just before the Texas Tribune published an investigation probing how one state agency poured at least $30 million into expanding the reach of the controversial automated license plate scanners.
“There is a crackdown across Texas,” Abbott spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris said in a statement.
Oof, I hadn’t noticed. I wonder if that’s a Markdown thing, or a lemmy thing probably. I’ve noticed there’s a colon-system for emoji like
:smibrings up a selectable list of emoji that match. So I’ll test: ® - if that’s(R)then it was something else, but if that becomes Ⓡ (which I just typed using the compose key) then it’s Lemmy. lolThe view from Voyager:
The view from Safari: