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Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen
- alexfromapex 5y agoDoes it need regulation? Probably
- wolfretcrap 5y agoI live outside of US, precisely India and see many videos of Ring on YouTube which are marketed as avoided huge loss because of ring Funny thing caught by ring At some point even I wanted to install ring then I realized I live in India. Good on them for their crazy and viral YouTube marketing.
- belval 5y ago> "neighborhood surveillance platforms such as Neighbors perpetuate a much longer history of the policing of race in residential space" I am onboard with the individual freedom counter-argument such as the one that was made to target people participating in the BLM protests, but I fail to see how a network of ring cameras can be especially bad for people of color.
- JPKab 5y agoIt's predicated on the narrative that the systems of power in the US are all inherently biased towards X category of humans. My opinion is similar to yours: This narrative is injected into as many stories as it can be, whether or not the facts or data in said story support it. It's an inevitable result of elite media organizations being filled with quantitatively illiterate liberal arts graduates from elite universities. Try talking to your average Oberlin graduate sometime and see if they seem remotely humble about their knowledge of the world in proportion to their age. Put that person in a newsroom with editorial decisions delegated to click maximization algorithms. The result is this.
- tweetle_beetle 5y agoI think it's fine to have and express a theory. But if your theory involves attacking a large group of people for not providing evidence (and their lack of humility), then this looks an awful lot like the pot calling the kettle black to me.
- meristohm 5y agoMight it be that police tend to do what the most-influential in their jurisdiction ask them to do? Somewhat related: The Irish in America earned their whiteness through cruelty to those with whom, in the Five Points for example, they’d relatively-peacefully coexisted. They saw an opportunity to get an advantage over, rather than continue to be in solidarity with, people with darker skin. Then they solidified this advantage by working in policing and politics.[0] [0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-the-irish-became-white/ https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-the-irish-became-white/
- mensetmanusman 5y agoLarger than Prism? Certainly the largest private surveillance network.
- rurban 5y agoCivilian??