It seems that the core issue is identified here...
Do I have that correct -- or do you wish to add something or delete or change something?
Questions:
How is the Flock business model (i.e., trade goods and/or services for money) any different than that of any other business?
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How is Apple or Google or any other Smartphone vendor any different in selling public-facing video cameras to the public?
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How is any Wireless Service provider (including but not limited to: Verizon, T-Mobile, Boost, Cricket, Wal-Mart, Tracfone, Wal-Mart, AT&T etc., etc.) that subsidizes the purchase (deployment) of Smartphones with public-facing video cameras, different than the Flock business model?
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If municipalities are government entities and presumably "for the people by the people" -- then how specifically does Flock "encourage municipalities to use them in these dystopic ways?"
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Do municipalities think for themselves?
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Or do they have external companies do their thinking for them?
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If so, then how is this possible, specifically, and exactly?
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