A little over a month ago, the
former American Idol contestant
, country musician, and Instagram influencer Noah Orion appears to have learned
about the surveillance company Flock
. “Cities are now covering Flock cameras with trash bags,” Orion narrated over an Instagram post aggregating a 404 Media report. “It’s also pretty wild that we’ve just dropped stickers that say ‘Fuck Flock’ on them and it’s pretty cool that it’s coincidental that the sticker’s outside diameter is the same size as the average camera lens on a Flock camera,” he adds, showing a mockup of an AI-generated sticker featuring a surveillance camera that is not a Flock camera.
Orion had never posted on Instagram about Flock before then. But, since that post, Orion has posted dozens of reels about Flock, apparently at great personal risk to himself. A July 8 post features an image of a printed out “CEASE AND DESIST” letter purportedly sent to Orion by Dan Haley, Flock’s head of legal affairs. “It has come to the attention of Flock Group Inc. that you have engaged in conduct involving the unauthorized dissemination of photographs, videos, memes, screenshots, or other visual materials in a manner that encourages your fans to claim and place stickers that constitute a rude and unusual manner towards our company and association. You are hereby instructed to immediately cease and desist from any further use of such materials […] any further demeaning actions or posts will result in legal action. Failure to comply with this demand may result in Flock Group inc.
[sic]
to persecute you and your organization to the fullest extent of the law.” 
The post has 73,000 likes and has been viewed millions of times. Since that post, Orion has posted the same letter
16 separate times on Instagram
, and is now posting about almost nothing besides Flock. On Tuesday, he posted a reel stating “I
could go to jail soon
, and I am not afraid of that. I am pushing a movement against Flock cameras.” In that video, he said

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