Amazon shuts down man’s “smart” home after automated doorbell allegedly committed an act of “racism”

  A man by the name of Brandon Jackson was locked out of his so-called “smart home” recently after Amazon shut it all down due to allegedly “racist” statements he made that were picked up by the always-listening spy devices he owns.

The Amazon Ring doorbell device locked Jackson out of his own home after the Amazon device, and possibly several others, caught him saying something that the company found to be “offensive” and “politically incorrect.” Jackson wrote the following in a piece for Medium:

“On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly a week, from Thursday, May 25. This wasn’t just a simple inconvenience, though. I have a smart home, and my primary means of interfacing with all the devices and automations is through Amazon Echo devices via Alexa. This incident left me with a house full of unresponsive devices, a silent Alexa, and a lot of questions.”...<<<Read More>>>...