Y Combinator's CEO promotes and praises them almost every day.

Pretty clear already that Ycombinator runs this very site as a community fueled decoy for their actual values (or complete lack thereof).

Id argue they run this site as a forum for tech discussions, because that alone gives them a huge boost to their image and name recognition, without any need for meddling.

Well, that’s what I meant for community-fueled decoy. We’re all, me included, our own unique bredd of useful idiots.

More like a crowd-sources think-tank and SEO magnet.

I am absolutely shocked

flock safety were in one of y combinators incubator programs but to be fair, saying you want to make a camera company to improve public safety but then being used in a dystopian way... well it should have been foreseeable shouldn't it? Im conflicted in this, I love camera tech and its probably not going away any time soon, but wonder how it could be used responsibly for public safety only.

They actively WANT the dystopian surveillance state.

Lot of money to be made for anyone who gets to pull the strings in such a state.

Yeah I suspect defence-oriented startups massively out-perform most categories

Source? That’s a substantial claim on a platform run by Y Combinator.