Surveillance company Flock sent a cease-and-desist letter telling a private group - UPDATE: THE LETTER WAS FAKE

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Sat Jul 11, 2026, 10:58 AM - Edit history (2)

See reply 6 below. The original thread title was

Surveillance company Flock sent a cease-and-desist letter telling a private group to stop discussing surveillance tech

but a journalist whose Bluesky posts you'll see in reply 6 says the private group claiming they were threatened faked the letter, and they've done this sort of thing before.

And see reply 10 below for the apology posted by Benn Jordan, the musician who'd posted the fake letter before finding out it was fake. His apology includes a screenshot of the fake cease-and-desist letter. He's deleted his original post about it, the one that had appeared in this OP.

[-misanthroptimist]

1. How does one say...

..."Blow it out yer ass" in binary?

[Gore1FL]

2. That seems desperate..

I’m not sure how an entity can demand people not talk about them, but I expect discovery would be fun.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. F**K FLOCK!

That is all.

[progressoid]

4. The comments on BSky are great.

[TommyT139]

5. Reading the comments, the post is a fake.

The org holding the event posted it as a promotional hoax.

[highplainsdem]

7. Thanks! I edited the thread title and added an update to correct it and direct people to reply 6 with

the journalist's Bluesky posts about the hoax.

[highplainsdem]

6. According to journalist Chris Ingraham, the letter supposedly from Flock is a fake marketing bit by Saturday Salon.

FYI: this is a fake viral marketing bit by this "Saturday Salon" group. Flock's Chief Strategy Officer says they never sent it; the branding is off and the purported author's title is wrong, among many other things.

— Chris Ingraham (@cingraham.bsky.social) 2026-07-10T18:50:12.362Z

The same group also posted a much more obviously fake cease and desist from Palantir a few months ago

— Chris Ingraham (@cingraham.bsky.social) 2026-07-10T18:52:06.049Z

[SheltieLover]

8. Ty for the update!

[highplainsdem]

9. Yvw!

[highplainsdem]

10. Benn Jordan, the musician who posted about the letter before learning it was fake, has deleted his

original message and posted an apology that includes a screenshot of the fake threat:

Saturday Salon forged a cease and desist letter and shared it on their official profile.

They put themselves and others in legal jeopardy and handed Flock a win by making critical press seem hyperbolic.

I apologize for not fully vetting this, as Flock had sent frivolous letters in the past.

— Benn Jordan (@bennjordan.bsky.social) 2026-07-11T00:49:52.794Z