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

Re:Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout ... by mihaaly on Friday June 23, 2023 @07:26AM (#36445382)

I sense that some of this trigger happy approach is coming from other consumer protection laws triggered by the society (through popularity hungry polititians) demanding action from someone and anyone when one or some adverse parties use technology and services with harmful intent.

Not all of course, companies with too much power act hostile just for the sake of it (means random management bullshit from power obsessed or just ambitious member of it).

So I am not too sure if even more and more consumer protection laws for for particular situations will solve this instead of making it worse.

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Re:Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout ... by JKCalhoun on Friday June 23, 2023 @08:24AM (#36445869)

Apart from just hoping the companies come around, what do you suggest then? Or are we perhaps just screwed and have to walk on eggshells when we are on the internet?

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Re:Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout ... by mihaaly on Friday June 23, 2023 @09:39AM (#36446694)

We should not expect that some mistical fater figure or "they" will solve everything for us. Yes, we need to use the internet as there were hostile elements out there and without blind trust and blind fury that someone is not acting on our behalf all the time.

Some regulation is necessary for most serious or common matters but regulations are not a magic wand that will solve all of our problems without effort from the individual!

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Re:Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout ... by JKCalhoun on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:21AM (#36459441)

I always think of "they" as "us" — the society we make create to serve our collective interests. And that is exactly what it exists for, why we create it‚ because it is required to change the things we as individuals are incapable of addressing.

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Re:Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout ... by Eisenstein on Friday June 23, 2023 @08:33AM (#36445970)

Ah yes, the old 'companies are screwing us but it is regulation that is the real problem' argument that seems to disregard everything that reality and history presents.

Hint: if you have no evidence of something but believe it because of an underlying philosophy, you should figure out how true it is before arguing its case.

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Re:Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout ... by mihaaly on Friday June 23, 2023 @09:32AM (#36446620)

Probably should not diregard the history of harmful regulations while doing so?...

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Re:Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout ... by Eisenstein on Friday June 23, 2023 @10:17AM (#36447125)

Please take everything into account.

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