Amazon Shuts Down Customer's Smart Home

[Ben]

I can't recall if we talked about this when it happened (in June), but it popped up in my feed this morning.

An Amazon driver reported to Amazon that a customer's doorbell made a racist remark, so Amazon shut the whole smart home down while they investigated. The homeowner is black, and it's alluded to that the driver was black. Regardless, it's another reason not to have a smart home, unless it's on a NAS or something. This "always on" stuff gets creepier and creepier and totalitarianier and totalitarianier.

https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-smart-home-brandon-jackson-echo-racial-slur-allegation-1806947

Also, yes, they're a private company, but how about "innocent until proven guilty"? If monitoring language and beliefs is part of your DEI crap, investigate first, then end your contract with the customer.

[K Frame]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I remember this being posted. Just another reason why I will NEVER had an integrated smart home.

[WLJ]

https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=68560.msg1403361#msg1403361

[Ben]

Ok, old man brain strikes again. Nevermind. 

[HankB]

Ok, old man brain strikes again. Nevermind. 

Planning to run for President?

[cordex]

Planning to run for President?

Not a lot of planning involved on his part.  He'll do what we tell him to do.

[Ben]

Not a lot of planning involved on his part.  He'll do what we tell him to do.

Don't get smart with me sonny! I was there when SEAL Team Six took out Bin Laden! They needed me to drive his body out of the compound in my Corvette! There was a fire! I drove my Corvette onto the train because the conductor knew me! I teach all about it in my political history class at Harvard! You raccoon-faced kangaroo soldier!

[MillCreek]

^^^Easy there, Grandpa!  Let's get you back into bed.  Would you like me to turn on Fox News for you?

[WLJ]

Go easy on Ben, he almost lost his Corvette at the World Trade Center site when his kitchen caught fire on a bridge while saving hundreds of people in Iraq during the charge up San Juan Hill

[Ben]

Go easy on Ben, he almost lost his Corvette at the World Trade Center site when his kitchen caught fire on a bridge while saving hundreds of people in Iraq

And I almost didn't get there on time because Corn Pop tried to stop me, but I said "You ain't black, man! I told Abraham Lincoln to set you free ,and then he called me the Mack Daddy and I made it to Iraq, and lots of little Iraqi girls stroked my leg hair because they'd never seen a white man before!"

[cordex]

Don't get smart with me sonny! I was there when SEAL Team Six took out Bin Laden! They needed me to drive his body out of the compound in my Corvette! There was a fire! I drove my Corvette onto the train because the conductor knew me! I teach all about it in my political history class at Harvard! You raccoon-faced kangaroo soldier!

Was that the mission Beau was killed on?

[WLJ]

That *expletive deleted*it would rattle anyb.. ice cream!