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The videos are interesting. It’s a really cool interface. But the commentary seems from left field:

> It’s a fakery to help the police feel OK about themselves, and more importantly to coerce us into accepting the need for their existence in the first place

I don’t like cops. But to say their existence isn’t needed is not sane.



The author also seems blind to the fact aerial photography has been a well established concept for well over 80 years at this point. These companies are not optimizing their optical systems to spy on people, but rather provide a good focus at long focal ranges in hardened systems, has nothing to do with police or their motives, its a general product feature.




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