Amazon Shuts Man Out of His Home

Note: Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. It all sounds so cool until you live with it. This is what the World Economic Forum and the Democrat Progressives want for us...less privacy, less control over our lives. When we get less of almost anything, they get more.

Earlier this month, a man claimed that all of his Amazon devices locked him out of his own “smart home” system after he was accused of using a racial slur.

According to Breitbart, a man named Brandon Jackson made the claims in a post on Medium, describing in detail how he was locked out of all of his Amazon devices for about a week before the situation was finally resolved.

By Lloyd Zilinski on 2023 06 20

Why people, mostly millennials and younger, think it's cool or intelligent to automate and intellectualize (i.e: "Smarten") your crucial/critical home systems and appliances. I have been in and out and in again, of the field of electronics for most of my adult life - from the time if vacuum tubes right up to and including SMD ICs and components. I have also had experience with computers from the days of the earliest PCs. I've long ago learned from numerous personal and work experiences that electronics do fail, computers do fail, and software and programming do fail because they are only as good abd dependable as the people who program them and write the code. Self-driving cars gave already killed people and will kill tens if thousands more once they become prevalent. Only redundancy and backups to the backup can give a person some confidence in the safety of a particular system. The aviation industry learned this long ago and that is a large part of why a modern passenger jet costs hundreds of millions of dollars. And even then we have disasters like the Boeing 737 Maxx boondoggle. Putting your home's reliability and safety in the hands of "Smart" systems which can and do fail and are subject to the political whims of large, faceless corporations and government interlocutors who may be inclined to pressure these corporations from time to time is a recipe for disaster on multiple levels. People need to stop being so lazy and stop putting what should be their iwn responsibilities in the hands of strangers who often don't have these people's best interests at heart. Cameras and security systems are fine and do serve some useful purpose. Automating any part of your home is okay as long as you have manual, in home overrides for any automated systems. No automated system should give outside access to anyone except a reputable service person and that access should be strictly on a one time as needed basis with coded permissibility supplied by the system or home owner or their duly authorized representative. No one actually "needs" Siri or Alexa or whatever. No one "needs" to check their refrigerator or lights from thousands of miles away. That's where actual friends (not the Facebook kind), relatives, and neighbours can help. Someone checking in on your home every day or even every other day (better yet, have two or three available trusted people check in on alternating days) is far more safe, reliable, and beneficial than putting all your eggs in any electronics based, corporate controlled home management system.

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