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Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
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Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
#22The WeRateDogs guy broke character and put out a video attacking that ad https://bsky.app/profile/weratedogs.com/post/3mejrtyvkyc2o
The weratedogs guy has been posting political messages for as long as I can remember. This is completely in character for him.
Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
#23Amazon also had the ad about Alexa killing you. Not sure what they were thinking exactly.
That ad was great. I'm not sure how it sells Alexa products, but it was hilarious.
Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
#24The Dark Knight was released in 2008. In that movie, Batman hijacks citizens' cellphones to track down the Joker, and it's presented as a major moral and ethical dilemma as part of the movie's overall themes. The only way Batman remains a "good guy" in the eyes of the audience is by destroying the entire thing once he's done. Crazy to think that less than two decades later, an even more powerful surveillance technolo…
The Dark Knight was released in the summer of 2008. This was almost 7 years after 9/11.
Many aspects of that film were deliberately done to explore post 9/11 America. This includes the methods Harvey Dent uses, the things the Joker says, and the surveillance scenes and more.
These discussions surrounding surveillance have been around long before 2008.
Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
#25Fears of mass surveillance? It's already mass surveillance
This nitpick in language adds nothing to the conversation and is fundamentally incorrect. "Fears of" does not imply the thing feared doesn't exist.
Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
#26[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950915
Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
#27What backlash? "People voiced concerns" turns out to be 9 people if you follow the link. Where exactly is this backlash and why can't I smell it?
I found out that on Reddit people go there and ask things like this (someone asked recently): "My girlfriend and I are looking for something to do. Are there any protests going on today we can go to?"
Can you imagine people actually searching things out like that? These "people voicing concerns" are like that. Someone has to find something to be enraged about for the sake of finding something to do.
Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
#28What backlash? "People voiced concerns" turns out to be 9 people if you follow the link. Where exactly is this backlash and why can't I smell it?
I found out that on Reddit people go there and ask things like this (someone asked recently): "My girlfriend and I are looking for something to do. Are there any protests going on today we can go to?" Can you imagine people actually searching things out like that? These "people voicing concerns" are like that. Someone has to find something to be enraged about for the sake of finding something to do.
Or people are concerned about living in a surveillance state and wish to protest that or some other issue. Why downplay legitimate societal concerns?
Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
#29The Dark Knight was released in 2008. In that movie, Batman hijacks citizens' cellphones to track down the Joker, and it's presented as a major moral and ethical dilemma as part of the movie's overall themes. The only way Batman remains a "good guy" in the eyes of the audience is by destroying the entire thing once he's done. Crazy to think that less than two decades later, an even more powerful surveillance technolo…
It's hard to not become disillusioned with our industry when most of it is just the manifesting of that Torment Nexus tweet. It's like no one in the tech world actually understands any piece of fiction that they have ever consumed.
Re: Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
#30The WeRateDogs guy broke character and put out a video attacking that ad https://bsky.app/profile/weratedogs.com/post/3mejrtyvkyc2o
The weratedogs guy has been posting political messages for as long as I can remember. This is completely in character for him.
"They aren't good politicians, Bront."