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

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

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Amazon needs a process before deleting accounts to check if the target has a big social media presence somewhere that it might create a backlash. Such accounts need to be handled differently.

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…

Nobody "got cancelled". Accounts are cancelled, not people.

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

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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…

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

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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.

Not that hard /s

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

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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…

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You win today.

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

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I think he's from New York originally, so "thick foreign accent" is quite funny.

A racist doorbell is one that says, "Hi, how can I help you?" to whoever pushes it, and the person who hears it thinks it said something else.

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

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Because that’s not how society works

Worked for thousands of years, but perhaps now it is time to rely on the people bribed by big corporations?

Cash doesn't work you heard em ;)

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

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> 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 k…

If you attempt to use a credit card that you haven't used in years, the bank will similarly ask you to verify your identity. I don't think it's weird that unused valuable accounts need re-identification when you start to use them again. I don't mind anti-spam measures in cases which are common spam techniques. Hijacking unused accounts is common enough to warrant an approach like this.

> the bank will similarly ask you to verify your identity

I doubt that. The bank will either cancel my account long before that, or it will work.

> Hijacking unused accounts is common enough

Ah, yes, for all my 20 or 30 followers, can’t have them see a single image, and of course, the hijackers also hijack the computer those accounts are from, so the IP belongs to the same entity it always did.

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