• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I made a video that is tangentially related to this a week and a half ago. There isn’t a ton of reporting on it, but Flock is losing a ton of cash thanks to local privacy movements.

    Just in September they lost 100+ contracts. They’ve lost almost 400 since June, in 36 US states.

    Seeing the response is the first thing that’s given me a flicker of hope since the Patriot Act passed.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      It’s encouraging, but annoyingly, most startups operate at losses for years. Unless they lose venture funding or more of the rest of the 6000 contracts, that’s not going to stop them.