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#BOYCOTT_RING! BOYCOTT #AMAZON.

Massive #Surveillance & Invasion of #WE_THE_PEOPLES #Privacy_Rights, Data Protection Rights and Citizen Personal #Security_Rights VIOLATED by A PRIVATE #CENTRALIZED CLOUD CALLED AWS piggy backing off of ORACLE!

BOYCOTT ORACLE TOO!

MASSIVE #SURVEILLANCE & INVASION OF WE THE PEOPLE PRIVACY RIGHTS, DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS AND CITIZEN SECUIRTY RIGHTS!

‘#Ring_Nation’ Is a #Terrible_Idea That’s Unstoppable Because #Amazon Owns Everything?

Amazon owns #Ring, #MGM, and production company #Big_Fish_Entertainment. It owns #Prime_Video, and has the support of police around the country. What can stop it?

On Tuesday, 40 #civil_rights_groups published an open letter calling on MGM Television executives to #cancel the studio's upcoming #reality_show Ring Nation, which will feature former #NSA #employee and comedian #Wanda_Sykes presenting humorous #surveillance_footage captured from Ring doorbell cameras.

The groups say the studio is "normalizing and promoting Amazon Ring’s dangerous network of surveillance cameras," which, along with the Neighbors app, "violate basic privacy rights, fuel surveillance-based policing that disproportionately targets people of color and threatens abortion seekers, and enables vigilantes to surveil their neighbors and racially profile bystanders."

There's just one potential problem with the well-intentioned campaign: Amazon owns Ring, producer Big Fish Entertainment, and distributor MGM, and it also owns the Prime Video streaming service should it need somewhere to air it. It also has specific partnerships with thousands of police departments around the country should they happen to prove useful.

This tower of vertical integration means that Ring Nation is a show designed from the ground up to leverage Amazon's vast monopoly to push its own product on Americans, and it also means that it will probably (but not definitely) be impossible to kill. There’s very little chance that MGM executives will push back on the project when it's probably exactly the type of thing Amazon imagined being able to do when it spent $8.5 billion on a merger with MGM this year.

There is a kind of fifth column pushing this project over the line, too: Amazon and Ring's cozy relationship with police. As Motherboard has reported, Ring has forged partnerships with thousands of police departments and helped to foster a culture of paranoia around crime in U.S. suburbs while giving authorities a widespread video surveillance network to pull from—sometimes without a warrant.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zdkm/cancel-ring-nation-amazon-show

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