Yeah, think I might have been onto something there at the end of last bread. Maybe not, no big deal if it isn't, but I'm going to ramble it off anyway.
Why should it be okay for regular people, companies, AI's, and governments all on a global scale, to be allowed to circumvent the boundaries of a public square in one country, in order to know what goes on in that public square without ever being in that public square. It does sound like a form of surveillance to me. Now, should all those mentioned be allowed to potentially track a person's conversations in that public square? Track the friends they have in that public square? Track who they're following and who's following them in that public square? Track their location via that public square? See where I'm going here? Would that be illegal search and seizure? It's in public, right? That sounds eerily like a parallel to FLOCK to me.