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Elon Musk Silences Critics By Deactivating Accounts And Reaching Out To Their Employers
(finance.yahoo.com)
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Isn't this already happening? Man locked out of smart home for a week after delivery driver accuses him of being racist.
Also this.
Only just considering it? That's some serious Stockholm Syndrome energy.
That dude 100% deserved it. Not for anything he said but for being a tech career guy and wiring his house up so hard he couldn't open it without Alexa. He wouldn't have been able to open it without wifi either.
If you’re going all in on smart home shit, you should ALWAYS buy the products that work when the internet goes out, or when the local IoT network shits out.
Example, fuck Hue lights. Gets Caseta switches that are wired in and can be used like real switches. Don’t get a smart lock that requires a phone or a wireless pays. Get one that also has a keypad that is hardwired directly into the lock and has a normal key hole. Carry the key just incase.
Yeah I try to get Zigbee or Zwave devices as much as possible. None of my smarthome stuff relies on Alexa or Google to work.
Yeah that’s just dumb.
The title there is awful. He wasn't physically locked out of the house, he was locked out of the 'smart home' devices.
That's not what happened. His Amazon devices were locked out, but he has HomeAssistant setup with various other IoT devices that worked fine still.
Seriously, that's what it was? They'll ban him for that?
Yeah. People lying about racism towards them (or as they called it "mishearing") can ruin other people's lives. Getting deprived of Amazon services for one week could be considered being lucky if we think about what happens to some people after such false accusations.
100% shit is crazy
In Musks case it would probably be deemed not offensive enough.