[lrvick]

I would not do this now, but teenage me would be spray painting every lens. Not to give anyone ideas...

[nine_k]

This is inefficient. Some semi-transparent laquer applied to the lens that makes the picture permanently blurred would be much less conspicuous.

[culi]

An infrared laser beam could also do the trick. The beam would be invisible to the human eye

[int_19h]

This is America. Just shoot them.

[culi]

People are so out of touch with how far the US has slipped into surveillance capitalism. You simply cannot get away with doing stuff like that today.

[lrvick]

Not with that attitude.

There are tens of millions of people pirating software and media and blocking ads. There are not enough prisons to hold them all so the law is not enforceable at that scale.

Likewise there have always been and will always be effective non violent forms of resistance with sufficient systems of coordination and communication, because the public is always larger in number than the oppressors.

[direwolf20]

And yet, people do. Perhaps by slipping into some unsurveilled hidey hole, changing into a black hoodie, doing the crime, and running away before the police arrive