lancelongstiff t1_jad662b wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:17 PM

Reply to comment by uavmx in Yikes, the U.S. is Now Using Facial Recognition Rigged Drones for Special Ops: If you're on America's shit list, bad news: a flying robot that can recognize your face may soon be coming after you. by Tough_Gadfly

Funny, it seems little more than a year ago that a US drone strike murdered seven innocent children and one adult in an embarassing case of mistaken identity.

Oh look, it was.

UsecMyNuts t1_jadfanc wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:16 PM

Article is paywalled but I’m going to make a funky guess and say that:

all people killed were brown
all vicrims were absolutely innocent
there were absolutely no consequences for anyone involved in the attack.

nerd4code t1_jadp1rf wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:17 PM

Well at least they won’t drone-bomb citizens, and I’m sure our top legal minds have firmly rejected the possibility!

What’s that? Both Obama and Trump killed citizens abroad sans trial (in absentia or otherwise), and Eric Holder refusing to rule out the idea is as much public debate as the notion got? Well at least we aren’t just recycling the same political whores who’ve been active in the government since the Nixon era, and the problem should fix itself.