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Smart Homes, their Control - and the Self-Appointed Police and Government Might be better in the politics thread, but it's tech enough. https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-week-without-amazon-df1074e3818b This guy who always looks like he never sleeps discuss the issue in two videos, the event, and the discourse following the first video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PRGszw0KubQ tl;dr: bloke with an Amazon smart home got accused of racism, his house got turned off (lol) by Amazon. This Louis chap says a lot and I don't want to cover it just write my own two cents. Democracy means participating in the decision making process. It is there so a group of people (a nation or in worse cases: citizens of a country) can self-regulate their own issues, govern themselves. To act out the decisions there is the state structure which acts according to the decisions (laws) the said group of people make. Out of necessity - to make society livable along the rules (laws) we agreed upon - the state reserves certain roles to itself, like the police, or the judges. If someone steals my shit, I can't just go after him and shoot him - I'd break the law. The justice system is there to mediate, get the thief, and give him negative feedback for the crime, and make it possible for me to seek relief. I see this tendency that more and more people think they have the right to certain laws and act like if they weren't part of this system of nations-countries-states. When the Russo-Ukrainian War broke out, the states of countries that decided to help Ukraine issued sanctions against Russia. Private companies followed suit saying they'll embargo Russia too - as if they were state actors not private ones. Even worse, private individuals also thought they can wage their own war like that developer faggot who changed his code so those who dl'd his program from a Russian IP got their hard drive filled with crap. Now here comes Amazon. Perceives something as a transgression, something that itself defines as a crime, he gets the "criminal" and punishes him for his misdeeds. The people sitting in the offices of Amazon know the power they wield, the power over their customers, whom they perceive as subjects, and they act without remorse, without supervision, accountability. I could say without investigation - but they don't even have investigative power. They have nothing just self-appointed authority based on the trust people put into them when they become their customers, with their use of service. They are creating a parallel state to take care of the issues of their parallel society. It's like a mafia. Well not like a mafia, it is a mafia. They are breaking the law, they state should intervene, and stop these criminals.