Surveillance company Flock sent a cease-and-desist letter telling a private group - UPDATE: THE LETTER WAS FAKE

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Fri Jul 10, 2026, 06:51 PM - Edit history (1)

See reply 6 below. The original thread title was

Surveillance company Flock sent a cease-and-desist letter telling a private group to stop discussing surveillance tech

but a journalist whose Bluesky posts you'll see in reply 6 says the private group claiming they were threatened faked the letter, and they've done this sort of thing before.

[-misanthroptimist]

1. How does one say...

..."Blow it out yer ass" in binary?

[Gore1FL]

2. That seems desperate..

I’m not sure how an entity can demand people not talk about them, but I expect discovery would be fun.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. F**K FLOCK!

That is all.

[progressoid]

4. The comments on BSky are great.

[TommyT139]

5. Reading the comments, the post is a fake.

The org holding the event posted it as a promotional hoax.

[highplainsdem]

7. Thanks! I edited the thread title and added an update to correct it and direct people to reply 6 with

the journalist's Bluesky posts about the hoax.

[highplainsdem]

6. According to journalist Chris Ingraham, the letter supposedly from Flock is a fake marketing bit by Saturday Salon.

FYI: this is a fake viral marketing bit by this "Saturday Salon" group. Flock's Chief Strategy Officer says they never sent it; the branding is off and the purported author's title is wrong, among many other things.

— Chris Ingraham (@cingraham.bsky.social) 2026-07-10T18:50:12.362Z

The same group also posted a much more obviously fake cease and desist from Palantir a few months ago

— Chris Ingraham (@cingraham.bsky.social) 2026-07-10T18:52:06.049Z

[SheltieLover]

8. Ty for the update!