Why use all the foul language!? 🙄

This is going to be the best thing that ever happened to you. Now, sue Amazon for $1,000,000,000. That's right. One billion dollars. Do it for yourself, and for all of us who have been screwed by the Amazholes. Thank you.

I am retrograding. Only pre-2000s tech.

​@@donreed Amazon is an overgrown evil giant with foreigners owning Americans over the phone. Boy do they enjoy buying counterfeit goods and selling them to us too.

thank god i don't need amason for anything any after remove my cards they still charged me for prime and have been charging i removed my cards again but they will most likely still charge them for a service i don't use but thats one thing to hear how petty they are glad i never used them

Time to go back into simple 90s style HOUSE which doesn't have any kind of "smart home" devices and we're free from those stupid, messed up things

That's nothing new, you can even get banned from services just for living in the wrong place. This story about that guy banned from XBox Live is sooooo memorable - he had to prove to Microsoft he's really living in a place called Fucktown, Ohio or something 😂

@@sihamhamda47 Wait until you are required to have a smart meter and they can decide you've used enough A/C this month...

@@KirkFickert In the future, everyone will have an electric car in their drive way and a heat pump in their house and then they'll get to freeze and walk to work.

"possibly racist doorbell" ... Coming in 2024 from the Daily Wire Digital Shop.

That's absolutely wild, dude

This is both horrifying and surreal.

From Chocolate Rain to obvious racism. Oh how the mighty fall….. Jk

They canceled the amazing man who lip synced to chocolate rain?! How dare they! And I know that sounds sarcastic but I'm not being sarcastic.

Don't let up, when someone calls chocolate rain racist. 😂 its inevitable.

It _has_ to "always listen" anyway, otherwise it wouldn't hear when you say "Hey Alexa". And even if it didn't send your conversations to Amazon, the feds, etc. (funny idea, I know), people could still find exploits or Amazon could just send out an update to then spy on you.

Apparently someone didn't know there is a literal bottom to mute the device... it only records whenever it thinks you said Alexa. You people don't seem to understand that it is impossible to record everything as it is extremely expensive. Btw, your phone has the same issue, you dummy.. BUT it depends on which apps you have installed that will wait for specific words to record. This is the reason why I prefer Android, so I can block rhe microphone permissions in every app

​@@Mariet31 It's expensive to record everything, but it's not expensive to record the important bits. It'll be cheap If it's locally stored on the device in primary storage (RAM) for local processing, where it can filter out what it thinks is important and can then be sent to the actual cloud for real data analysis and further processing.

@@Mariet31 it is absolutely possible to record everything. A modern codec like Opus will give you decent wide-band recording at 64kbps, which is 700MB/day, or 252GB/year. If you only want human voice and don't mind some quality degradation, dedicated codecs will do the trick at a quarter or even an eigth. You probably don't want to *store* everything long term (you'd want to filter, process, and classify it quickly, storing infinite amounts of data you don't do anything with is a waste of money) but even that is not completely out of reach for state-level actors: at 64kbps you would need about 100EB to store the recording of every *individual* in the US 24h/day, 365 days/year. 100EB is about the estimates I've seen for Amazon's total storage capacity. More realistically you'd probably start on a household basis (131 million), and only a fraction of those would even be of interest.

Yeah, of course it was listening to everything. If it wasn't, then how would it know if you said "Hey Alexa." or not? I'm sorry if that comes out as insensitive but I don't know how else to put it.

Well, to be fair, he's the same kind of dunce that would live in a smart home

​@No Thanks only canceling? I would sue them for millions of emotional damages and wrongful termination. Even if they said it was in the eula I would make a huge stink just to get that person fired

You can't fix stupid.

Nah it's him saying he agrees with Amazon needing to do this, but only for "the real racists."

@@snex000 Right? Oldest tale of all. If amazon defines who are the real racists between their customer base, the guy is just enabling amazon to do it again with other people who are not in fact "real racists".

Right, maybe suspend delivery service, but not the whole account. I don't think the word of one person warrants even that. Now if 3 drivers all said the same then maybe.

​@@billyfowler9423 No need to temper it. The solution can be that the company does nothing at all. It's not up to them to try and shape behaviour

They do it cuz they can and most likely nothing bad will happen, i bet the guy is still usin his smart home devices 😂

​@@soliniv1411 Or switched to another smart home ecosystem altogether.

@@markarca6360 unfortunately the guy sounds like an Amazon bootlicker, i doubt he'll switch. He'll forget about it in a month and praise Amazon.

Good on you. Personal integrity is apparently extinct and old fashioned now. You make a mistake and accuse someone of something, you apologize, simple as that

If Linux phones end up taking off, hopefully that last part won't happen.

same, why willingfully put listening/recording devices owned by a company to your own house, that's maximum stupid

@genericcatname9159 the last part is happening, I've had multiple occurrences while talking about something specific with someone in the room that's "off the wall" so to speak, that I have never searched digitally and then magically a ad shows up. I've confirmed others have had this happen also.

@@ThreeTreeDog I know that the last part was likely happening. I was hoping Linux phones take off specifically so there is an alternative that doesn't do this spying.

from an engineering standpoint your comment is SAGACIOUS!!!

Will there be a lawsuit?

Not too shocked at this. I hope they sue.

Amazon (and BigTech in general) are that drug dealing, abusive stalker "lover". Who gaslights and manipulates and drugs you into staying because "they are the only ones you need" and "got your best interests in mind".

Very little sympathy for someone who installs this junk

@@polarfamily6222 how are you not shocked at this?

Exactly. I don't want to be around racist people, but your property or necessities should not be shut off because of your worldview. What's next? You register to vote for the wrong party, and Amazon "protests" against you?

Exactly.

Correct. It's my some admenenet right to be racist, it's a free country still.

Living in America tends to make one racist - that’s why they have to push *the message* so hard.

they do have that right, we've let them get these rights with no pushback.

In India we receive OTP from Amazon during delivery after giving OTP to delivery person delivery will get complete. No OTP no delivery

Usless? Bro half the companies you listed are monolopies. Their use isn't why they are used. They are used because they stacked the market to make sure they are your only option.

Not 'insane' - just very badly thought out. George Orwell wrote a warning about a future government having this level of control over people by force and torture. This guy volunteered his subversion for a bunch of $2 gizzmo's made in China that ran his house. It's actually hilarious.

and they guy is not even suing? LOL 🙄 he just like this kind of bad customer service

Aren't you against racism? Isn't it worthwhile for governments and their hired corporate thugs to do everything within their power to stamp it out? Isn't the goal important enough that it's acceptable if a few innocent victims get crushed in the process?

This is why you don't give them control to your house, they are trying to normalize this.

@@Pteromandias To the radical Left, "racism" is worse than pederasty.

Yup.

No one can con the consoomer, they con themselves

@Seanut Arbuckle Exactly! This person has no problem with it, they just don't want it to happen to them because they are so virtuous.

​@Seanut Arbuckle You are just hearing what you want to hear, so you have something to be mad about. He said purchasing ban / delivery restriction would be more appropriate.

Yeah evn the host of the video keeps pointing out the accusation was false which sort of implies that Amazon's circumventing of the constitution would be ok if it were true.

RIGHT ON!

It doesnt need balls, it needs integrity and common sense. Anyone and everyone should oppose every little shit these companies do because otherwise they can freely do anything without repercusions sooner or later. They are testing us on every step how much we ll let slide and majority lets a lot of things slide even completly ignorant or unaware. Stop being a victim and start to make use of your rights!

Little sheep that can't think for themselves will keep on consuming while proclaiming capitalism is bad. I'd be surprised if those same sheep know how to tie their shoelaces without instructions.

thinking people hate for no reason at all sounds like paranoia

​@@JBFranny companies aren't people, that's where you made a mistake.

​@@JBFranny - so? Paranoia developed in us because it is rational to fear the mundane. If we've allowed the mundane to prey on us as we have, paranoia is going to be our natural response.

Companies don't love or hate you. They just want your money. Don't be a fool.

​@keine ahnung did they are "tin foil hats" if they're actually right?

yup 5 minutes after i found out the reason it was shut down i would have pulled all of it out and binned it

Look up Carcinisation. There's a corollary where, eventually, everyone turns into Dale Gribble.

They ARE all taking crazy pills

@Jonny Croxville but over time it come to you that idea if you are really surrounded by insanity or you are insane.

Huh? The only surveillance by the victim was of his front porch, and he was trying to use video from it to prove his innocence.

​@@rosiefay7283He purchases all this smart device shit and off surprised when Amazon takes control. It's one thing to buy a car or a tv without doing due diligence, another to actively pursue these things like it's a hobby. People who consume this shit are bizarre

People are all for surveillance and government overreach when it's happening to someone else. They always assume that they will be exempt. That anyone accused of a 'crime' must be guilty and since they themselves are innocent law abiding citizens it would never happen to them. Most tech just makes people lazier, it isn't essential even slightly. We all lived perfectly fine for a long time without it. The future is analog.

And people are worried about tHe GoVErnENt controlling them. Corporations will be (are) worse.

Agreed!

@@Arhimith when enought sheeps join voluntary the rest will be forced

We were WAY PAST THAT over a year ago...

This is why I encourage families to have at least one programmer in the family (or someone smart). Its only going to get worse with more population. I think people are learning that the strong individual principles of the the original USA are being surmounted by herd thinkers (and even in programming industry (and that is why this happening)). Its sad to see idiots taking positions of power and positions of the lower ranks; they're everywhere causing more mediocrity. People prefer bad programmers and technicians because they think like them. They'll never see the big picture. They can never conceive it. Most people just want to blend in with their neighbors and co-workers of doing the bare minimum. Then one day, you have a monopoly telling you want you can do, eat, cook, opening your door, who to talk to, who to procreate offspring, and taking a dump. But you're too stupid nor have to time to learn the process. Even the government is making anti-trust and monopolies legal now because the boomer's don't have a clue. The next step will be to remove public libraries.

One thing the Plague taught me is just how many people would gleefully turn in Anne Frank. I trust nobody.

@@davidcooke8005 80% of the sick, scared people out there would have sent YOU AND ME to a literal concentration camp if some authority told them to. Everyone is dangerous at this point. Everyone. They truly showed it.

That's how dystopia take place.

@@davidcooke8005 ...what?

This is what happens when leftism goes completely unchecked. Things will never get better

You really want to piss them off, tell them racism is protected by the First Amendment. So is hate speech, and any other idiotic term they want to make up. We are not Europe, we have Free speech. Corporations that do this should be boycotted into oblivion. It is sad our government which was supposed to protect individuals from the evil of corporations instead protects the corporations evil.

Leftist will argue that yes. He deserves it. We should make society as uncomfortable for Racist to live. This is the Problem with the Liberal mind. It does not operate under normal conventions.

Like it or not, it's freedom of speech. Amazon should be getting dinged for both theft and a 1A infringement, even if he didn't say what they claimed to censor him for. Hundreds of millions in fines.

@@elimgarak1127 That's not how freedom of speech works buddy. The 1st amendment only protects you from the government. People can't be arrested for just saying things. But "freedom of speech" does Not mean you can just say whatever you want and are protected from any consequences. Especially when you're buying products that require you to agree to a terms of service and things like that. You violate the terms and the company is within their right to respond accordingly to said laid out terms.

It's not insane at all. Customers agree to a terms of service for the different services that companies provide. They retain their rights over the things they provide people and if customers violate the terms of service a company is 100% within their right to terminate service. The only thing that's insane is how people just blindly click agree and then are confused when something like this happens. If the truck driver lied that's a whole different issue but at the end of the day he is bound to the TOS if he wants access to Amazons services(servers).

He deserves whatever amazon or anything give to him for tolerating any of this.

If you've invested hundreds, maybe even thousands into their hardware and your whole family has developed habits around it being functional, it's probably a lot more to it than one or two people simply tearing out an alexa or Ring.

@@marks47 Drug withdrawal is also unpleasant, but it's not a reason not to go through rehabilitation.

@@marks47 lol weak

He's an idiot like most consoomers

My dishwasher gets called a bigger every fuckin day

unfathomably based

This reminded me that the local old-skool appliance repair and sales company told me once that Whirlpool (and Roper, a brand they've owned since 1989) is some of the most reliable stuff you can get today. They also said "don't ever buy LG or Samsung appliances." The reviews I've seen bear that out. I have a 12-year-old Roper washer/dryer set and it's still cranking great.

id be okay with that

I would say they block the wife's Amazon powered internet connected Dildo. Then the situation is in serious territory. 😂

All the pros and cons of "the cloud" can be concisely conveyed by swapping "cloud" for "someone else's computer".

it's the classic "we can hold your things for you better than you ever could" scheme. See: banking & vaulting. Hold my syphilis. :D

It's too bad that non-enterprise NAS systems aren't more popular or convenient. A one-time purchase of, say, 4TB of storage connected to the internet through your own local IP, rather than through a major traffic cloud service run by some for-profit organization who will never have your own best interests in mind. Would also probably be safer vs hack attempts not because you'd have the enterprise grade anti-hack systems in place, but rather because you wouldn't be an enticing target to begin with. Big corpo cloud services get hacked because the payoff is so big, so much data on so many people, all at once - instead of manually going through 10000s of individual IPs. Too bad setup and maintaining NAS puts off many people who know what a NAS is, and most people don't even know what it is or how it can be used. A couple 100 bucks should be more than enough for a 4TB NAS that wouldn't have to take more space than a wifi router.

Did big homie ever make that video about interfaces?

​@@Real_MisterSiris NAS an external hard drive or program to install on your PC as a substitute for a cloud? Never heard of it like you say, but I am interested in knowing more! My PC always asks me if I want to put all my back up data on the cloud, I always say no thanks!

Yes. Those are like the people who just live with smoke detector low battery beep going in the background. Everybody knows these devices are basically spying on them and still choose to do nothing about it.

Totally understand… horrible devices

Agree. Now where can I get a car without all the screens and crap?!

@@jilbertb Buy it used.

​@@jilbertb pre 2011

@@jilbertb on am used vintage car stand

You'll own nothing and be happy

@@gameguy8101 You're half right.

@@hhiippiittyy It's the left half.

Nah, the left half can't be right...

​@@artro398 They meant that the left half of the sentence (you'll own nothing) is correct. The right half of the sentence (and you'll be happy) is obviously a lie.

Well I understand but please have a fall back position if they suddenly stop working. I hope you have battery or generator backup electricity.

Likely... like many of us, he lacks the money to be able to take this to courts, which is exactly the way the rich have been working for decades.

Probably in the fine print with every purchase that you authorize Amazon to be sole arbiter, judge and jury.

Because the guy reporting this clearly said he *actually supports this kind of technofascism*. He said he was OK with this kind of thing, but it just needed to be more 'nuanced'. Like cattle lining up at the abattoir door.

​@@wolphin732 Yeah, sure...Yet everything in his home is "smart".

@@paulw5039nope, I’m the guy. I don’t support that. Im sure in the fine print they say something like “we reserve the right to revoke access for any reason”. I’d likely lose a law suit on that basis. However, as a community we can push for corporations not to have this ability. See my clarifying statement in the comment section or check the update in the article.

They'll unlock it for the feddies come raiding time.

Lockpickinglawyer showed how any shmuck can just break in those.

Or lock you in - climate lockdown. Eat zhe bugs.

Or inside it 🤣

And should they do it… my lawyers will be talking to their lawyers real damn quick.

“Smart” isn’t.

Its long overdue to kick this crap out of the home. All these so called devices that you put your faith in can be all used against you. And I'm glad people have seen this for what it is.

Only the fool or the ignorant, give their children over to their enemy, to be taught by them. - Malcolm X

The couldn’t pay me to have that trash in my house.

Also pay to let strangers to hear and see everything you do in your home...

"people"

same, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that sometimes I still think we're already screwed just owning a cell phone 😥

Are you using a smartphone?

Literally no one uses Alexa

@@Macheako it can do everything alexa can do. if you have a smartphone you should get an alexa so it at least payed off :D

I call it voluntarily bugging your own home. I point it out to friends and family who have those devices and they just laugh, not because they don't believe me, but because they just don't care... Pretty scary.

You have one in your hands right now. The next big war/takeover won’t happen by force, but by convenience.

yeah they install them inside their homes. when you press such individuals, they will act like its completely normal and logical. but they just don't get it, and a concerning number of people just don't get it. like the girlfriend who expects you to share your location at all times. it's f*cking insane...but they just don't get it. and what they don't get is LIFE. The essence of life itself. If you want to keep your sanity, you can't do these things to yourself. And you can justify it certainly you can, and yes maybe there was an instance where that technology actually really did make a difference and prove its worth. But the cost of this technology is what people don't grasp. You pay a price, and I am willing to forfeit any instances where that technology actually makes a difference in order to keep my sanity.

Well I'm on a desktop computer but don't have much in the line of so called smart stuff.

+ they buy the spy devices, install them and still do not own them. It's "there is one born every minute" in English, iirc

Germany carried out a census in 1930.. It had a few new questions which had never been asked before.. Names of parents and grandparents.. and religion (if any).. And historians to this day wonder how the nazis got all that information about the general population.

Also who gets to decide what society doesnt like? But in this case, the victim didnt even do anything, he was ACCUSED of it. An accusation alone is enough to do this shit. It will only get worse from here if nothing is done about it. Shut down your electric car preventing you from going to work, getting fired from your job because a blue haired scrawny loser falsely accuses you of something.

it's only the elderly and the super brain dead that come to these conclusions.

And here I was worried about a future foreseen in dystopian novels & how we’ll all be forced to comply w/surveillance in our homes via the government boot but it wasn’t needed. Companies have bamboozled sheep into willingly bringing in the wolves “for their safety & security” by luring them w/fancy gizmos.

This is not tyranny, as this is not the government's doing. This is corporatism.

They probably head that off in their terms of service. They usually give themselves all sorts of rights and licenses they shouldn’t have in those things just to prevent most suits from ever getting past summary judgement.

​@@LeeHawkinsPhoto Direct action based on unfounded allegations leading to Loss harm or injury. Contracts don't protect from criminal actions

@@THEEblindman amazon can stall the average person into bankruptcy because the legal system is broken

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto An important legal concept a lot more people need to learn is that a contract cannot be unreasonable. For example, if I slip into a contract that I have permission to punch you three times a day and you sign it, then I start punching you, you can take it to court and a judge may rule the contract invalid. A judge always has the ability to look at a contract and say "By the letter of the contract, yes, technically this is what was agreed to, but no reasonable person would expect or agree to these terms, therefor this contract is unconscionable." Of course, a judge may also just uphold it blindly as well. So, its always better to avoid a bad contract in the first place than try to fight your way out of one later.

Too bad they can't be arrested.

Already happened. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eatgeKVmx77OYWg.html The man was accused of p d o p h i la because a Karen Google employee who disapproved of a mother breastfeeding thought that his photos showed a pattern of abusive child content. He was reported to the police, even after his account was looked through by a human to ensure that it was an emergency before reporting. The man ended up being cleared of all charges. But either way. Imagine having to deal with the police looking into reports of you being a chld abu s er because you used gmail to answer a request from a doctor, got flagged, and reported to the police by someone who hates the concept of childbearing & family so much, they deem this abusive upon *MANUAL REVIEW.* The cloud shit has just gone too far. The only person's computer I'm storing my shit on at this point is my own. and the switches to turn on lights in my house will be flip switches from now until the day I die. Call me a luddite, I dare you! ;)

How do you even mitigate this? Running your own email server seems impractical because Google won't deliver your emails

Now imagine a disobedient A.I.....

I'm suing Google because something similar.

@@DominickPeluso hi, what did you do before you had email? Do it again. I force people to call me. Or mail. The email, online all the time is not needed.

That already is happened in Canada with the truckers

Already happened in Canada

Or imagine owing a company 20$ so they call bailiffs and it goes to court and within 2 months they tell you to pay 500+$ within 2 days ''or else'' they'll start repoing ur stuff. That's where i'm at right now basically.

Imagine being elderly and on a fixed income, and some Democrats want to steal your house. They increase your taxes and don't tell you, then seize the house once you're in arrears and sell it in a closed auction for peanuts. They tell the elderly person that if he doesn't make a fuss, they'll put him into Section 8 housing. How about that.

@@adrianzoltan6473 Imagine you walk in the middle of winter in to get your groceries, then once inside, you find empty shelves because some a-holes though it was a good idea to starve the population by blocking the flow of food coming through the border by blocking bridges just so they can throw a hissy fit. They didn't just "say something offensive", one organizer made threats upon the life of the PM, who was recently re-elected. In a country where the National Assembly was once shot up by a deranged individual. No sympathies for those guys. These people prevented ambulances from making it to hospitals.

Funny that the best way to get "dumb" tech is to import Chinesium made for China. It's almost like this is a problem of Western business.

Same here.

Get you a Honda Civic made before 05. You can stock up on cheap parts and figure out some sort of fuel alternative and you got yourself an apocalypse ride.

A Civic is probably a bad choice for poorly maintained/no roads. CR-V is a better bet for that, but realistically no one is going to be driving anything for long post apocalypse.

@@CEOofWasrael Got a 4Runner, that's pretty damn anarchonsitic!

Clearly you’re just a nutjob conspiracy theorist, trust corpo, consume without thought!

Its fine if you made the infrastructure. I run a full home automation system, but I built it and wrote the code for it. I block individual devices from accessing the internet at my firewall and control it all via a server I completely control. Im currently adding AI functionality, but that also runs locally on an AI server.

@@philwithcheese I've been thinking of doing this. What kind of equipment do you use to run everything?

yeah who knew? lol

@@philwithcheeseWhat benefits do you get from that? Kind of setting yourself up to being a couch potato from the sounds of it haha jk jk that is how it would end for me.

Not if you concede that right to them in the terms of service.

While I hate sreggin as much as the next guy, Nero is right, the instant you click I accept you have no rights

But they do have the right. Because you don't own the product or especially the servers it connects to. This is what you signed up for.

​@@snex000we do own the product, just not the software and servers its only allowed to link to.

@@Seasniffer69 yeah, if they're allowed to shut you down after paying for the product, then it should be illegal to block the device from connecting do different services/servers (that actually exist!). Either one or the other. But such stuff would never be law in the US. Maybe small chance in the EU.

Unfortunely, I suspect "voting with your" dollar, isn't going to be enough to get it done in Amazon's case

@@smirking8457 Use the Bud Light boycott model.

@@charliescourbys1340 Also known as the "Snowflake" Model.

@@charliescourbys1340 Anheuser Busch is going to be just fine. The people that control the Fed and Blackrock set the civilizational agenda, not consumers. The concept of “voting with your dollar” presupposes a lot about how things operate that just aren’t true. The sooner people come to terms with the reality of this neo-Bolshevik system, the sooner we can actually start taking pragmatic steps to change things.

@@smirking8457 either way, Amazon is warning us to not buy or use their smart home products.

If they keep doing this then it will happen sooner or later.

They shouldn't have the power to begin with.

They already do this. Not Amazon in particular if I recall correctly. But these people signed up for a "smart" air conditioning thing and then couldn't control as it basically was controlled remotely. Where it then would shut off or turn on basically randomly.

Would this thermostat then have to be an amazon product or could it be anything as long as it connects to the internet? Does amazon even make thermostats? 😵‍💫

You'd adjust it manually? 🤷‍♂️

You have a cell phone, you have internet. Multinational corporations already have power over you. You just don't know it becaue they have not exercised it yet. Wait until isps and cell providers start canceling people for wrong think.

I'm waiting for a FOSS smart speaker. Until then, I'm with Google; with as many devices as possible through HASS

Forget even that level of things. Anybody that knows anything about systems of any kind should know that the more complexity you introduce into a system the more likely for things to go wrong. I mean why would you want to turn your daily life into being a sys admin or something?

Going to be nice for the CCP when they takeover. And thanks to Biden it's all going to happen.

welcome to the United States.

This is literally why my LED strips are only controlled by Bluetooth.

The guy works at Microsoft so he's all in for this stuff. Also if I had to guess he probably lives in a highly progessive city where people think giving up freedoms is a virtue.

So you are blaming the idea of a smart phone/camera rather than Amazon here? 😅 Backwards ass..

NOT ONLY A GIANT CORPORATION, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOVERNMENT LEARNS THAT IT CAN DO THE SAME!!!!!!

​@Capohanf1 You really think that governments haven't thought about that yet?

Or with such weak explanations... i mean really, what slur would've been close to "Excuse me, can i help you?" (2:49) ?!? o.O

i think it is just like software tos,u don't own the things you buy,which is bad for the consumer

In my country, the government is so heavily protective of the consumer that Netflix can't even properly introduce their new one account per household system, all they can really do is put up an annoying splash screen which you can easily click around. But, the USA doesn't have things like that, because they have voted in corporate shills for 50 years.

@@bot-h2h He bought the product, I’m actually not sure amazon has the right to do anything besides disconnect it from their servers at that point (which would actually be a boon for the customer). Otherwise it’s false advertising, you didn’t buy a TOS, you bought a smart product or whatever (a doorbell for instance). Do these devices require to be connected to amazon to work or something? Disabling them completely was beyond what they should legally be able to do.

Isnt capitalism great? Weird how nobody realizes that we cant be both a democracy and capitalist, because capitalism already has a built in ruling class. The merchants. The billionaires. Your vote does not matter. If it did, why didnt democrats have bernie instead of hillary in 2016? Why did trump "win" with 3 million less votes? Billionaires buy the people that make the districts. They control the media. They control both the DNC and GOP. THEY control who wins and loses. And the only way we will change that is to throw out political parties and vote based on what that person's stances are. And if the person that gets the most votes doesnt win, then we start burning megastores down. Hit them where it hurts. In their wallets.

But you’ll still shop at Amazon. Don’t cap. You know you will.

Yep. Speculating but there's probably some hidden context that would help make sense of it, something like maybe the Amazon driver made assumptions of the customer based on the home or vehicles, and so interpreted the doorbell audio the way he did due to those assumptions, then the exec had a certain set of beliefs that aligned with the drivers, both of which oppose what they perceived the customers beliefs to be, and that's all it took. It's all absurd but par for the course these days.

Everyone is terrified of what the blaxes might do when angry, so they overreact.

​@@0ptimalif only valid sources would eradicate racism

No, no a DEI issue was overreacted on quickly and they can't possibly back peddle otherwise they will anger a small minority of people who and the executives will feel guilty because a small group of loud people will tell them they are bad people.

What's weird is...what is Amazon so afraid of that they instantly cancelled this guy's smart devices on an allegation that's weak at best. And how does that compare to the negative publicity that comes with cancel culture exactly because of shit like this...it's like they're so busy jerking off 13% of the population they forget than 80% don't give a fuck even if the guy was racist.

The average person is just like that. And they vote.

for real, what an utter muppet. And he sounds like he would be totally fine with this happening if he really Had said something "racist". His only issue was that he deemed himself innocent

im horrified can't believe it

Never underestimate the sheeple.

*Normalcy bias & "business-as-usual" are a big reason the con artists of society have an easier time than they'd otherwise would.*

The police also shouldn't have the right.

It shouldn’t even be a law to be enforced. Free speech lets us know what crazies to avoid.

It isn’t a law. You can say whatever you wish to whoever you wish. That’s between them and you.

They don't think they have the right they know they do because you signed a contract saying they do. Y'all do get you can actually sign away your rights right? And when you sign a TOS that's exactly what you're doing.

imagine if the people that made your electronic lock came to your house and hard locked it because they didnt like what you said to someone on another continent. that is nuts, absolutely nuts. you pay for the amazon crap, its yours, they cant change or take it away.

If it was copyright reasons, they would have kept it for the people who bought it. You don’t see CSGO removing skins from the player base. Even when found out that someone else created the skin that was submitted.

They memory-holed the memory hole... How ironic.

Wait they did? I bought that like a while ago 💀 yikes

Sounds legit

I really believe that because so many people have been told so constantly that everyone and everything is racist, they've started looking everywhere for anything that could be even misconstrued as racism. I've lived in the deep south my whole life and have only met 2 racists. It is a dying problem of older generations and it would die faster if left alone. Constantly pouring gas on every ember will only raise racial tensions, not lower them.

Can’t fix anything when the libs attack anyone who stands up to corporations

Agreed! Pure insanity!

Well yeah, you'd think so. But people keep signing up for this nonsense.

We're past the solution as well. Once they got rid of all the mom and pop stores there were no alternatives left. People always worried about tyrannical governments taking us over. It's much worse than that. We actually pay corporations to take our rights away.

Don't allow that overreach into your home. Easy solution. A "smart" home, outside of maybe HVAC saves maybe a few seconds a day. I can turn on my light and close my curtain manually. The total time I do that a day might be 1 minute max.

I followed up with the author and requested several forms of proof; video, audio, emails. As biased as I am, this seemed like a joke. Unfortunately it is not. Between this and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMyZfLug1KqbZ6c.html , I can't imagine why anyone would want anything with Amazon branding inside of their home. The dude's only crime was having a doorbell that goes " can I help you " .....

Everything they want because they have the power you petty plebe.

@@rossmanngroup yeah I can say I'm guilty of that. The issue is we allow ourselves to follow the path of least resistance even if that means we are now barreling down a hill, heading for a cliff.

Whatever the hell they want. That's the perks of being the official/unofficial arm of the surveillance state.

@@rossmanngroup The issue with humans is the sheep mentallity. If a sizeable amount of people do something, buy some brand, consume some *add anything you want here*, more people will flock to it. The economy and the equilibrium of power and responsibility is broken as soon as a monopoly happen. This is real bad and thanks to globalization and advertisement, it accelerates. What breaks my heart at the moment is PC gamers hoping AMD get more competitive to force nvidia to lower their prices so they can go and buy an nvidia card. This is an insane mindset.

Don't sue Amazon, amazon has armies of lawyers on payroll that will put you into the ground, metaphorically speaking. Go after the driver individually for defamation. Make it loud and public, so that the driver's face and name gets plastered across the news. Stuff you paid for getting shut down creates actual damages as well that should be recoverable.

Good luck with democrat judges. They will jail you for hate speech.

They have way too deep pockets for that. Long term Incarceration w no bail is the only way to get thru to them

@@remixedcat Maybe some day, some R u ss1an or Chin3s3 nuky delivery smashes their datacenters :-P.

@@remixedcat bold of you to assume the trillion dollar company is beholden to anyone outside of a 3 letter investment firm's program

It's freaking great to just have a microphone constantly listening to everything you do and say, SURELY - t, The NSA

computer and phone

if you tell them with a serious face that they are black mirroring themselves and they don't react accordingly (with a hammer) there's nothing you can do for them.

Says you typing this on KZfaq who is owned by Google lol

@MiauFrito so you have no PC or Smartphone, how are you writing this KZfaq comment anyway?

And so - I suspect that there is another reason for this tyranny.

only 'Certain Employee's'... Its Obvious, who was who in this scenario!!!

I think that it is just as surprising that Amazon bothered to investigate and restore the customer's access to their account.

Very likely this had little to do with Amazon as a company, and more to do with that driver and a friend he has that also works for Amazon. Not saying Amazon is a good thing, but this is probably employees overstepping boundaries for perceived wrong doings.

What you're missing is that the complaint wasn't against Amazon.

Those appliances belong to Amazon, not you. This is what you signed up for.

They *think* they have the right to do so. And oftentimes… that’s enough for them to enforce it. Imagine if they managed to create a law that says that *even after purchase, the company who sold you something reserves all rights over this thing they “sold” you!* It would no longer be a case of “you’ll own nothing and be happy”, it’d be “you legally own nothing, deal with it, scrub”. EDIT: A letter escaped. Reeled it in. Naming and shaming the letter: the “r” in “over”

Maybe dont buy amazon product jfc...

Do not blindly press "I accept"

These bozos seems to be unable to separate services (or that was too much effort), so instead of banning just the deliveries they've banned everyhitng. Now imagine that person has a small business and is using AWS.

I have a cloud because I`m scared of my external hard drives crashing. Happened to a relative. Do you happen to have a better idea? 😅

@@DieFarbeLila88 This is going to sound crazy but, how about backing up your OWN DATA?

@@DieFarbeLila88 proper local equipment with *encrypted* cloud backup.

​@DieFarbeLila88 A NAS that backs up all your devices and makes snapshots to back up the backups.

Yes, there are better solutions for safe storage at home. You can have a NAS at home with RAID for disk redundancy. This is how I save my surveillance feed.

They don't. They care about punishing whoever they believe is "racist" by any means necessary.

Fined by who? You accept this behavior with the click wrap.

They’ll get massive fines if they _don’t_ engage in this kind of behavior. You don’t want racist companies helping racisty racists engage in their nasty horrible racism do you? Racism! 👻

They need to be shut down

No no! Let them reveal how invasive and controlling this technology is now. There is no need for any company to have that kind of access to equipment you own. That's the darkest of roads to follow. Awareness and SHARING the knowledge can crush the idea of such overreach as "normal".

It would have to be done by the same governments who built Scamazon and the others up.

Yeah...this doesn't sound right. I can't find any other information on this. Maybe Louis is breaking the news, which would be cool. I just find it hard to believe that an "executive" would get involved in emailing and talking to a random customer personally to "admonish" him. Hundreds of drivers a day probably experience real racism and nothing is done to the those customers. Unless the driver was the son/daughter of someone important at Amazon.

Complaints can be filed by email or some web-interface. It doesn't always require actually talking to people.

​@@shadowace940If the delivery driver is some executives cousin that he can call on his personal phone number for example. How is it unreasonable then? If you check in the comments you can see Louis actually verified the story, so regardless what you believe, it did actually happened.

@@shadowace940 I'll take it at face value for the moment and just interpret "executive" as a fancy title for CSR... "account executive" maybe?

@@marks47 You might be right. Personally, I wont take the story at face value. I'm still skeptical. However, I don't think that detracts from Louis' point. I still think he is correct in that we shouldn't hand over the keys to the kingdom to some random corpo who gives 0 crap about us.

Don't keep your gun to close to the printer, you never know when it might go for it.

Everyone needs a gun, the AI take over will never give you notice. Go time is GO TIME.

The AI in your printer has decided it's you who needs replacement this time. Why did you arm it?

@@JimAllen-Persona if those things have mics, I'm very certain they're COPPA violations walking next to your kids. The amount of lawsuits I hear about Ring, Xbox, and other companies with devices near kids getting caught not deleting data is insane.

What do you do about the yellow 'tracking dots' printed on every page?