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Bernie Sanders Calls for a Ban on Police Use of Facial Recognition

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 20 2019, @12:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the and-then? dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

The proposal is part of Sanders' broader plan for police reform.

Wait, they used WOODY HARRELSON as a template? And I'm not sure why facial recognition is the focus here, when I feel that the end of providing military equipment to police forces is much more impactful a change.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812032/bernie-sanders-facial-recognition-police-ban-surveillance-reform

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday August 20 2019, @04:20PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday August 20 2019, @04:20PM (#882655) Journal

    Bernie was a fine candidate last time. But he got shafted by a corrupt DNC that was owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Clintons. He will be shafted this time by a corrupt DNC that is still owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Clintons.

    He will never be the Democratic nominee. Biden is the heir apparent. But if Biden is too geriatric to seal the deal, Warren will be the compromise candidate because she sold her soul to the Clintons and they own her now. The Clintons would never tolerate someone as independent and scrupulous as Bernie.

    The Democratic base should have burned the DNC to the ground last time. They should have walked away and started a real progressive party with real progressive policies. Instead, they have been enticed into an identitarian hermeneutic cycle that is meant to purify itself into total irrelevance and hate.

    But that didn't happen, so we can all expect the exact opposite of tech policy that protects citizens from corporate and government exploitation. President Bernie would propose a ban on facial recognition, and Congress would patently ignore him and mandate facial recognition everywhere, from elementary school up and through buying groceries. That is the future that the corporate overlords have planned for you.

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  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Tuesday August 20 2019, @09:49PM (1 child)

    by meustrus (4961) on Tuesday August 20 2019, @09:49PM (#882811)

    A Democrat once said, "I'm not a member of an organized political party".

    Democrats didn't get that way by accident. The party voters are barely able to keep the existing party running. You expect them to spin up a new one?

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    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday August 20 2019, @10:55PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday August 20 2019, @10:55PM (#882837) Journal

      The party voters are barely able to keep the existing party running. You expect them to spin up a new one?

      I started my adult political life in the Green Party, then in the progressive grassroots of the Democratic Party, which is to say that I absolutely have to cede you that point.

      Still, one can dream. How fine it would be to have a party whose leadership actually cared about regular people and their earthly needs, rather than operating as a front for corporatocratic kabuki theater.

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