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The way it works as this goes along is that certain skeptical, independent voices arise to object to some new phase in the control push. They win loyalty and something of an audience and then on the next turn they kind of promote the new thing that you would have thought they'd be dead against and soften their audience towards it. Covid skeptic becomes "Flock cameras do have some value" person.And indeed with Flock it's happening all over now. And boy is it obvious. Former free speecher becomes tentative Flocker etc. Just observe. Quite a game, quite a technique.