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IMTDbyesterday at 11:28 PM3 repliesview on HN

I’m not sure destroying other people’s property is the best way to make them sympathetic to your cause.

I don’t own a Ring camera (or any similar device), but the idea that someone could spend time unnoticed on my porch, messing with my stuff, right where my daughter likes to play on weekends, makes my skin crawl.

If that happened to me, I’d probably just double down on security to be honest. Knowing that some people actually feel it's the right thing to do makes me wonder if I shouldn't start today.

To be clear, I have no issue with someone peacefully informing people in their neighborhood about the potential dire consequences of enabling "share images of my doorbell with the government or other private agencies", that's all fine to me. But if you feel the need to impose your views by harassing me about it or by breaking the law to get your point across, you won't get an ally in me.


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fwipyesterday at 11:45 PM

Well, they aren't trying to win your sympathies.

giraffe_ladytoday at 1:16 AM

> you won't get an ally in me.

If you're not going to ally with the people fighting the surveillance systems that are currently being used by the secret police to disappear and kill people what does that make you. My cause doesn't need your sympathy it needs to stop this horror. I'm not quite saying "with or against" but you are saying "against."

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FranklinJabartoday at 1:25 AM

> I’m not sure destroying other people’s property is the best way to make them sympathetic to your cause.

We're in a slow moving civil war at this point. Looking for sympathy stopped making sense a long time ago. You're either pro humanity or pro property tbh

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