# 小镇禁止鸟群后，议员崩溃了，提议禁止上网和打电话

- 来源：Hacker News 热门（buzzing.cc 中文翻译）
- 作者：cdrnsf
- 发布时间：2026-05-21 04:52
- AIHOT 分数：0
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmpejtyzr0d18slk15dujc4so
- 原文链接：https://www.404media.co/after-town-bans-flock-councilmember-crashes-out-proposes-internet-and-phone-ban

## AI 摘要

小镇实施鸟群禁令后，一名议员因压力崩溃，突然提议立法禁止居民使用互联网和电话通讯。这一从环境管理转向通讯限制的极端提案迅速引发关注，在科技社区Hacker News上获得101点热度，凸显公众对数字自由议题的敏感反应。提案源于议员对禁令后局势的情绪失控，可能反映基层治理中的非常规应对方式。

## 正文

After months of discussion and outrage from residents, the city council of the tiny town of Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to immediately end its contract with the surveillance company Flock. In the aftermath of the vote, one of the dissenting council members crashed out and said he would be introducing measures to ban cell phones, the internet, cameras, and nearly all technology in the town of roughly 900 people.

Bandera had a state grant to install eight Flock Safety AI license plate reader cameras in the tiny town. The technology proved to be incredibly controversial, with residents repeatedly turning out to city council meetings to say that they did not want government surveillance in the town; the poles that the cameras were installed on were repeatedly destroyed by vandals in protest, leading the town to have to replace them at their own expense. Last week, the town formally decided to abandon its contract with Flock entirely.

After the vote, Councilmember Jeff Flowers, a staunch Flock supporter, said that if people in the town wanted privacy then the city council should basically ban all technology, essentially calling people who did not want government surveillance hypocrites. Flowers said he would propose a series of new regulations at an upcoming city council meeting, which he is calling the “Bandera Declaration of Digital Independence.” In a letter posted by the local newspaper, the Bandera Bulletin, Flowers said that in the name of preserving privacy he would suggest the city go back to the days of 1880.

“For months, I have listened to the outcry regarding License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology. I have seen the eyerolls, and I’ve even been met with ‘Nazi rhetoric,’ the dangerous claim that believing in accountability and community safety is somehow equivalent to totalitarianism,” Flowers wrote. “Comparing a neighbor’s desire for a safe street to a dark chapter of history is a classic case of comparing apples to oranges; it is a distraction used to avoid the reality of the threats our town faces today.”

Flowers said that at the next city council meeting he will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits. If we are to be truly ‘private,’ we must leave our smartphones at the city line.” He will also propose “a total ban on outward facing cameras,” and “a total termination of all internet services and electronic record-keeping. We are going back to 1880, paper ledgers and cash only.”

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