Fun with taser drones
by digby
Spocko wrote up the SXSW taser drone stunt:
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What I love about this stunt is that it was designed and developed to be the perfect news story and that William “Whurley” Hurley, chief innovation officer, understood that it would be a conversation starter.
Because military drones are a hot topic and SXSW is a large global event, Hurley said they decided to bring to life the “fantasy of some people and nightmares of others.”
“We wanted to have an educated, well-informed discussion about how people feel about this as a society, or whether you’re a police officer or private citizen,” Hurley said. - ABC News
So, maybe we should have that discussion.
Fat chance. It appears that the company was being facetious in its portrayal of taser drones as "awesome" but I have no doubt that a whole lot of people will find them super awesome. And tasering people is always good for a chuckle.
As Spocko rightly points out in his piece, despite a few local victories in the drone sphere, there are a whole lot of conversations we desperately need to have about drones and tasers. But first we should probably try to stop using torture as entertainment.
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