I don’t even care if it was a racist doorbell - shitty move by Amazon.

That's the problem with giant do-everything companies like Google and Amazon. People should never be locked out of critical infrastructure without (the equivalent of) a fair trial. I mention Google because they have been banning people who [feces]post on Youtube, locking them out from all services including accessing content they paid for, checking the calendar on their phones, and even receiving emails.

It is possible to do better. Valve does what should be the absolute minimum; tracking community forum bans separately from anticheat bans, neither of which stops you from accessing single-player content you paid for.

> all of their Amazon Devices (echo, alexa automation, etc) were also non-functional

Great way of not-selling those.

I already not-bought Kindle because of the Orwell debacle way back when. Not-buying any echo/alexa stuff is clearly the way to go too. I just buy from the store occasionally.

Same for Google properties, I don't do squat on anything other than Gmail, don't want that messed up.