So here’s what happened.

A delivery driver for Amazon misheard an automated doorbell response at some dude’s house which said, “Excuse me, can I help you?” as racist hate speech. I don’t know what he thought he heard but he reported back to Amazon that some racist stuff was going down there.

The homeowner had tricked his house out with all sorts of smart products with Amazon products, making it a smart home. Well, when he returned home he found himself locked out of all of his devices.

Amazon turned off all the lights, shut the entire smart home down before it even started it’s investigation.

Law enforcement via corporation with no due process.

When the guy called Amazon, he was given nothing but attitude because he was assumed to be a racist or something without any evidence. After finally being told, he reviewed the footage and nothing of the sort happened. It was just an automated response from the doorbell asking “Can I help you?”

Do not give these people power over you. They will use it and abuse it.

I gotta’ tell you, the Amish are looking pretty smart right now.

HT Revolver