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Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

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Post by Semaphor »

arthur_sav wrote: post #53
Yeri wrote: post #28

Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…

It's not just Amazon. All big tech companies have this "trigger happy" approach to closing down accounts. Especially payment companies. I believe we need to pass down new consumer laws to protect the people. We pretty much rely on their services and they have no accountability.

> All big tech companies have this "trigger happy" approach to closing down accounts.

After years, I made my first Instagram post last week. I got instantly banned (it was a picture of a new bag I bought). Apparently the way to get it back is to jump through some hoops and post a selfie with an OTP. I decided that’s a bit much work and I might as well let them delete my account that only follows a bunch of people I know without ever looking at their pictures.

Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

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Post by vidarh »

samtho wrote: post #22
pyeri wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much of a nuisance it really is if an American got cancelled by Amazon+Google? Assuming any attempt to create an alt account will be thwarted by the process (name won't match credit cards or bank accounts, etc.), I can imagine a dystopian future ~20 years from now where such people will become absolute pariahs in the society. Especially if the current trend of smaller tech companies cow towing the lines of establ…

I’m imagining a dystopian future where to KYC gets way out of control and you are required to undergo a credit, background, and reference check to make an account on a major platform. My guess is that as more of the internet turns to shit that feeds an AI machine that consumes this shit only to regurgitate it later, there will be a need to find out who is really human anymore.

....With rich people getting around it by hiring proxies, who are required by contract to lead bland lives for the duration not to get their accounts blocked.

Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

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Post by Semaphor »

ejoso wrote: post #79
Fnoord wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"In a YouTube video titled "Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for 'racist doorbell'," the speaker shares his experience of Amazon cancelling his seven-year-old affiliate program account, claiming he violated their operating agreement. Despite using the same links to promote products on his YouTube channel for seven years and earning meagre profits, Amazon cancelled his account without any reaso…

Notice: Whisper has made the decision to complete a voluntary market withdrawal of our Hearing Systems as our business direction changes, effective June 8th, 2023. There are no known safety concerns with the devices, but this means we will no longer service or produce the Whisper Hearing System

whisper.ai is apparently something completely different, I’m pretty sure OP meant OpenAI’s whisper [0] which is mainly used with whisper.cpp [1] I think.

[0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper

[1]: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

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Post by andsoitis »

DeathArrow wrote: post #67

Of course, it's not cool that Amazon can terminate anyone's account as they please. But I suppose it's their right. The real problem is Amazon having monopoly. If there were some true competition, I couldn't care less about Amazon closing my account as I could go to a competitor.

> The real problem is Amazon having monopoly.

What does Amazon have a monopoly on?

Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

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Post by alokir »

fullspectrumdev wrote: post #52
RobotToaster wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feels more and more like we live in a cyberpunk dystopia, just without all the cool gadgets.

Cybercuck dystopia, where instead of cool gadgets we are slaves to the machine - willingly

Tfw I willingly gave up all my freedom to corporations but instead of a cute robotic waifu all I got was a talking doorbell

Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

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Post by DeathArrow »

andsoitis wrote: post #84
DeathArrow wrote: post #67

Of course, it's not cool that Amazon can terminate anyone's account as they please. But I suppose it's their right. The real problem is Amazon having monopoly. If there were some true competition, I couldn't care less about Amazon closing my account as I could go to a competitor.

> The real problem is Amazon having monopoly. What does Amazon have a monopoly on?

Online retailing.

Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK »

arthur_sav wrote: post #53
Yeri wrote: post #28

Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…

It's not just Amazon. All big tech companies have this "trigger happy" approach to closing down accounts. Especially payment companies. I believe we need to pass down new consumer laws to protect the people. We pretty much rely on their services and they have no accountability.

Or maybe don't rely on their services, use a kind of money that doesn't close accounts. Like cash, or something that must not be named on HN.

Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

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Post by andsoitis »

Lutger wrote: post #73
kossTKR wrote: post #5

So Amazon wrongly accuses some random dude of racism after he says "Excuse me how can i help you" from their robotic doorbell, then bricks all of his amazon smarthome products remotely, then bans this man from their associates program for even making a video about it on youtube after 10 years. Are we living inside of the movie demolition man now? I absolutely hate large corporations. Racism off course is never ok, bu…

The Chinese point system is exactly what this reminds me of. It is ironic that unrestrained capitalism actually ends in a variant of communism where it are the corporations, rather than the party, that rule society.

> It is ironic that unrestrained capitalism actually ends in a variant of communism where it are the corporations, rather than the party, that rule society

Communism is when all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

So pure communism precludes corporations that are owned by private individuals.

Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

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Post by rootlocus »

viknesh wrote: post #60
elaus wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't watched the video and was very happy to have a summary. What makes you question it was written by an AI?

I thought it was helpful too, but read like it was written by AI. So I wanted to know if it was. What's wrong with asking a question?

Sarcasm is hard to detect in written form.
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