RE: https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/117609633568099412

Amazon now sells autonomous surveillance drones that can fly around your house and surveil it like a Ring camera surveils your front door and porch.

I know enough tech-enthusiastic people who will celebrate this development and not see the problems with it. They will get themselves such drones in addition to their Ring doorbell cameras they already have and the Echo in their bedroom that already watches them having sex.

Fucking hell. It's known that Amazon hands its surveillance material to the police. Police may tap into the video material as they like. Citizens are paying for their own surveillance, and for their neighbor's and passers-by.

How long until these drones will carry guns? Because some psychopath CEO like Alex Karp wants it and Palantir makes their own drones? Or maybe Amazon will do it themselves.

Imagine what Israel did with explosive pagers but with autonomous drones. Have you seen the movie The Wandering Earth? I'm thinking of the beginning scene.

Step by step surveillance is normalized. Now we're at the stage of flying autonomous drones that idiots will even pay for and buy themselves. And which their neighbors will have to tolerate (if they don't shoot them down with an EMP, Matrix-style).

The open-air prison system that is called Gaza really is the testing ground.

I wish I could say, "boycott Amazon. Don't give them money this Black Friday" and the problem was solved. Amazon makes the bulk of its money from AWS though, not from consumers doing their shopping at the everything store. It would take more resistance than just reducing your shopping habits. @alineblankertz and @malteengeler outline some resistance tactics in their book "Digital Solidarity"*. Stop giving Amazon your money is still better than doing nothing though.

* Their book is currently published only in German. If you know a publisher that could be interested in publishing them in English, contact them or me.