Where do you go when your smart home decides you’re not welcome?

Jackson soon discovered that Amazon suspended his account because a Black delivery driver who’d come to his house the previous day had reported hearing racist remarks from his video doorbell. In a brief email sent to Jackson at 3 a.m., the company explained how it unilaterally placed all of his linked devices and services on hold as it commenced an internal investigation.

The accusations baffled Jackson. He and his family are Black. When he reviewed the doorbell’s footage, he saw that nobody was home at the time of the delivery. At a loss for what could have prompted the accusation of racism, he suspected the driver had misinterpreted the doorbell’s automated response: “Excuse me, can I help you?”

    • Piecemakers@lemmy.worldEnglish
      149·
      1 year ago

      The irony of your downvotes re: a common initialization in the exact subculture this community is focused on… Just how many boomers are here, anyhow? 🤣🤦🏼‍♂️

        • hansl@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          I think the first time I saw that was on PHPbb. When people were still doing “first” as comments.

          You’ve been lucky in a way. Missing it for over at least 20 years. It’s like never having seen “ROTFLOL”.

          Edit: just realized nobody ITT answered the question so at least I will: “In This Thread”.

        • SRo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          My dude, as someone from the early 90s internet myself that’s not new tangled speech, that’s old af and from text forums and Usenet threads.

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          ITT has been around since the concept of threads existed. Early 90s at least. Very common. It’s odd you’ve never seen it before.

        • Spliffman1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          1 year ago

          Same here, been active on Discord and Telegram, and a small amount of Reddit, I don’t use the cancers called FB, X(Twitter), Tik Tok, or Instagram, and I’d never seen ITT till just now… Maybe it’s used on that crap social media I listed. I haven’t seen it used here on Lemmy either.

            • Spliffman1@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              1 year ago

              OK it’s more a Reddit thing it appears and the RRs (Reddit Refugees) need to maintain a comfort level and familiarity, that’s fine. But never good in life to use terms that may not be understood by your audience, and definitely not good to assume that everyone understands those terms and belittle or be condescending if someone doesn’t understand.

            • Spliffman1@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              1 year ago

              OK I always hated Reddit, never really used it much… Only a couple subs for apps I use, mainly to get updates from the Dev, and help a few dummies sometimes. I’ve been much more active here on Lemmy and haven’t noticed that.

          • Calavera@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I could see it all over reddit, in fact is the only place I’ve seen it.