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America’s Funniest Home Surveillance Network Isn’t Funny
- jrootabega 4y agoThis seems like an inflection point in it not being possible to write Black Mirror episodes anymore, because they will be hard to recognize as fiction. Bloomberg is helping that along, too. "Create an account and unlock 1 bonus article."
- robotguy 4y agoThere should be a corollary to Poe's law that says something like: For any satire published on the internet, someone out there is going to think "Now, THERE'S a good idea!"
- peanut_worm 4y agoarent the clips voluntarily submitted?
- jollyllama 4y agoThat implies edge cases like "here's a clip from my camera of a delivery driver or a passerby"; did they consent to have their image shown?
- chatterhead 4y agoThe social elite and old world families like calling their shots. It's how they communicate with one another through subtext. Everything released that has the "potential to blah blah blah" is actually intended for that purpose. It's the "doorbell security" that's the illusion. People are animals and you have to entice animals with meat before you can start training them with it. Amazon had to sell people on the idea of easy security so it could popularize and normalize the intrusiveness of a surveillance state. Next will will weaponize our relationships based on a perceived threat so it can finalize the intended use for it's RING sytem. It's not like Jeff Bezos' grandfather oversaw the construction of the internet and was a director for the atomic energy commission. No no, he's just a 1 in a million lucky nerd who was basically the sole survivor of the dotcom bubble. Not like he was a VP on WS before moving to Seattle...
- ok_dad 4y agoI’m down with this kind of old school conspiracy theory, please open my mind and tell me more? I miss the days when they weren’t as nasty as today.
- RunningDroid 4y agohttps://archive.ph/lll3b https://archive.ph/lll3b