But companies should not be allowed to arbitrarily cut off access to purchased products like this. Especially when they are designed to be integral to day to day life. I think this practice should be illegal, even if they did say horrible things, attacked the driver, and set fire to amazons headquarters. It is simply unacceptable under any circumstance.
I also think there maybe should be blowback for false accusations on people who report them. Basically. You better damn well be sure you head what you heard. It’s becoming to easy to yell racist run away and ruin somebody’s life.
A secondary of this is the media. We keep saying there are racist everywhere. Even Biden said the biggest problem America has is white supremacy. People are going to find a racisim with out without it one actually existing.
Whose life has been ruined by a single false accusation of racism? Racism absolutely does exist, unfortunately.
That weird digression aside, yeah. People are spending money on content that can be taken away on a whim, or basing much of their lives around email platforms that can deactivate their accounts at any moment. There should be stronger legal protections.
Let’s start with the woman who tried to rent a Citi Bike last week.
And how about the Duke lacrosse players?
Even so, the a fundamental axiom of the American justice system is that it is worse to imprison an innocent man than let a guilty man go free.
Then that includes the employees and executives at Amazon and is all the more reason to not allow them to punish others for behavior that is (according to you) universal.
That was in the context of domestic terrorism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/14/biden-whi...
The FBI has been warning about the growing threat since at least Trump’s term.
The run up to Trump, his presidency, and now his decline are definitely adding enormous fuel to the fire. Doesn't help Republicans now see white supremacists as a voting bloc they can manipulate.
[0]: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/qxf5...
You can't punish "false" accusations without silencing people from making any accusation out of fear lack of substantiation will be interpreted as false. We can't say that the driver did this maliciously; he may well have heard what he thought he did. The driver isn't the problem; he was aggrieved and reported it, as he was entitled to.
Tampering with someone's thermostat because you were entrusted with access to it and later decided you don't like them is sociopathic, and every bit as monstrous as deploying ransomware in a fucking hospital. I guarantee you no diligence was done to prevent collateral damage. More than the driver (blameless) or Amazon itself, this particular executive needs to be taken to task for such recklessness. Interfering with life support or communications systems is just fucked; we do that shit as acts of sabotage during war, and it's domestic violence when it occurs between spouses. Even your utility company needs to give advance notice of termination.
Yahoos acting on bad intel one too many times and punishing the innocent is literally what instigated Black Lives Matter. The irony is lost on Unnamed Amazon Executive.
Without this there is no action anybody can take...
We can't live in a world where accusations without evidence hold weight, nothing will get done and everybody can just accuse anybody of anything to get their way.
Unpopular opinion, but people need to grow up. You getting called a name should probably in any case, not be actionable.
And in retro, if you think a door bell called you a name you probably are unfit to deliver packages to any doors, and should seek mental help.
Do you even know how ring doorbells work? The owners inside can talk through them, avoiding confrontation, and saying whatever they want.
Bad things happen to people, it more than sucks. But without evidence who raped you there is little you can do. Sure report it, but no action can be taken on any man is no evidence of who did it.
But way to go, comparing somebody being called a name to rape. Clearly they are the same thing.
If somebody is harassing their delivery guy in any way, yeah, fine, don't deliver, make them pick it up at some location and use normal laws to deal with the harassment.
You would never get your amazon account canceled if the USPS worker said you called them a name.
In short, Amazon has to break up their business, at least when it comes for abuse issues on boundaries that have clear lines.
You fuck around with the Amazon deliver guy should not lock you out of your S3 account, shut and kill your AWS instances. Just as breaking some AWS rule should not prevent you from ordering and having delivered products from Amazon's main website.