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Amazon Locks Man Out Of His Smart Home For False Racism Accusation · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Well, we're all aware of cancel culture. We've all heard of people being
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  de banked, denied financial services, de platformed from speaking events. People are
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  being censored and deleted and having their livelihoods ruined by big tech for having the
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  wrong opinions. Well, it looks like Amazon just said hold my beer.
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  They actually locked a man out of his house, out of his smart home
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  because they think he's mean, and they were wrong. By the way,
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  here's the headline. Amazon just locked a man out of his smart home for
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  a week because a delivery driver reported him as a racist after mishearing something from
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  the doorbell. The guy wasn't even at home. This is about as arbitrary
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  and dystopian as it gets not to be, says this. This story sounds
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  like it comes straight from a dystopian sci fi novel. A man found himself
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  locked out of his smart house powered by Amazon because while he wasn't home,
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  an Amazon delivery driver mistakenly thought he heard a racist remark come from the man's
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  doorbell, reported it to Amazon, and Amazon immediately locked down the account,
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  locking the man out of his own home. And I will say I've been
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  an anti smart home advocate for a long time. As soon as I heard
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  about this stuff, this sounds like a dystopian nightmare to me. And even
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  aside from that, even aside from Amazon locking you out of your house because
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  they don't like you anymore, these things can be hacked. Do you want.
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  Somebody could be on another continent just locking you out of your house,
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  just for fun, just for kicks, probably recording you with all those cameras
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  and listening to every word you say with the echo devices. You could be
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  somebody's personal Truman show you and all of the disgusting things you're doing in your
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  house, Oh, you're probably doing them right now. Anyway, Here's what
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  the man accused of racism wrote on Medium. He said, when I connected
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  with the executive, they asked if I knew why my account had been locked.
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  When I answered I was unsure, their tone turned somewhat accusatory. I
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  was told that the driver who had delivered my package reported receiving racist remarks from
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  my ring doorbell. Maybe this is why you should never trust a giant,
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  faceless corporation to let you into your house. But anyway, it turns out
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  that the delivery driver had headphones on and imagined he heard something racist. From
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  the doorbell, But the owner of the house wasn't even home when the event
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  happened. Maybe he was just listening to NWA and he got confused. He
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  also had cameras all over the property that showed that he was totally innocent,
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  he said. I reviewed the footage and confirmed that no such comments had been
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  made. Instead, the doorbell had issued an automated response, excuse me,
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  can I help you? The driver, who was walking away and wearing headphones
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  must have misinterpreted the message. Nevertheless, by the following day, my Amazon
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  account was locked and all my Echo devices were logged out. In the end,
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  my account was unlocked on Wednesday with no follow up email to inform me
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  of the resolution. So consider this a cautionary tale. Yes, cautionary tale.
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  Indeed, don't trust Amazon to decide whether or not you can get into
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  your own house. But the larger question remains that, so what Ifee had
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  said something racist? Free speech me If free speech means anything, it's the
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  freedom of people to say things that you disagree with, not just those things
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  that you agree with or more specifically, the government agrees with. And if
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  history has taught as anything, those two things can switch dramatically, very quickly,
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  and all of a sudden, the good thing that you agree with is
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  now the bad thing. And if you don't have free speech anymore because you
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  just threw it away because virtue signalers told you to, well then you've got
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  absolutely no recourse as a citizen, do you, And it's really something that
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  you should have foreseen anyway. Please subscribe, link and share. Share really
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  helps me out. I thank you for that. I will see you next time.