> A HN audience will not appreciate this sentiment

I don't really agree. I think HN is particularly hostile to the likes of Flock cameras and other surveillance companies like Palantir.

But it's undeniable that spying on people along with other war/defense spending is very lucrative as governments love intel. All it takes is to be an amoral fonder to pitch to the amoral investors. It's a particularly easy pitch as well "We'll charge governments a lot of money and they'll happily pay because they love spying on their citizens".

The people that run HN are so hostile they launched the bloody thing:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety