The Pedopticon
Posted by brilokuloj on Aug 4, 2026
I didn’t even know what a Flock camera was until I found people sharing a map to find them in your area. Sure enough, there are at least 250 in my city. I never noticed them because they blended into the general landscape of surveillance technology in the area that I’ve grown accustomed to.
If I did ever see them, I probably assumed they were red light cameras. Flock cameras are worse. They log license plates, yes, but they also log people by physical description and store that information in a database that can be freely searched by the police.
Is that information that we can trust cops with?
In 2025, Flock vice president Bob Carter logged into the camera network of an Atlantan suburb and viewed the feed of a children’s gymnasium. This was the only camera he used during a sales pitch to the local police department.
Why was there a Flock camera in a children’s gym? For that matter, why was there one at the entrance to the girls’ restroom at a playground, and why was law enforcement viewing it? Why did Flock business manager Randy Gluck watch a pool for 3 hours?
Flock’s uprising was largely funded by Peter Thiel, one of Epstein’s many buddies. Thiel has his fingers in a lot of surveillance pies – you may have heard his name come up in discussion when Discord and Roblox rolled out ID-based age verification. Both platforms were using Persona, another Thiel-funded venture.
Discord tried age verification with a smaller company in April 2025, and it only took until October for a major data breach to leak 70,000 IDs. Despite this setback, they switched to Persona and tried again. Now that information is bundled with that of single-digit-age Roblox users and sent off to God-knows-where. Despite a lot of hand-wringing and promises that they would figure it out, Discord now requires age verification in Texas.
I didn’t grow up with Roblox, but I have friends who did, and they have strong feelings about the game. I think it does the platform’s community and history a disservice when people boil it down to being a game for children to get groomed on. With that said, the company is separate from the community, and the CEO did say that he saw predators as a business opportunity. I suppose it makes sense that they would have no moral qualms about handing children’s data over to the pedophile class.
Flock claims to have no crossover with Persona, or Thiel’s main project Palantir for that matter. But they also claim to not have face recognition software, so it seems clear to me they’re fine with playing fast-and-loose with definitions if it means looking moral. My point remains: Peter Thiel personally funds companies that let adults into ownership of children’s privacy.
A recent leak from beloved internet hacktivist maia arson crimew revealed the members of Thiel’s private group events, including high-ranking employees of Google and Meta. Thiel himself was one of the longest-running board members at Meta before he stepped down to focus on supporting Trump in the 2022 midterms.
On the topic of Meta (Facebook, Instagram) – they were ordered in March to pay $375 million in civil penalties for knowingly harming children and concealing information they had on child sexual exploitation. A few months later, Meta employee Josh Felker was arrested for attempting to groom a 13-year-old girl.
Meta has exchanged 2 billion dollars into astroturfing “grassroots” advocacy groups with the goal of forcing Apple and Google to add age verification surveillance to their own platforms. They are one of the biggest reasons that we are even having this conversation. Meta has been caught stating in internal documents “If we wanna win big with teens, we must bring them in as tweens.”
It’s all almost poetically convenient, isn’t it? It’s almost like the people who control our government (and our Internet, and our finances, and our wages, and our standards of living, and our human rights) view our children’s bodies as their property.
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