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I guess I should expect something like this from Bezos.He is a two faced ass-hole who will play both sides solely for his financial benefit.



E-commerce giant Amazon published a statement on Sunday stating that the company is “standing in solidarity with the Black community” in the “fight against systemic racism and injustice.”

Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce and tech giiant Amazon posted a statement recently in which the firm states: “The inequitable and brutal treatment of Black people in our country must stop.” The statement further goes on to say that the company stands with the Black community in the fight against “systemic racism and injustice,” as protests over the death of George Floyd rage across the United States.

However, despite claiming to stand with protesters, Amazon has a long history of working with law enforcement, specifically in the development of facial recognition technology. Breitbart News reported in July of 2019 after 15 months, a pilot test aiming to bring Amazon’s facial recognition system, called Rekognition, to the Orlando Police Department had ended. City police reportedly ended the test after multiple technical issues resulting in the technology failing to work correctly and a lack of resources on the police department’s part.

The software system is designed to utilize facial recognition algorithms to search for and track suspects in real-time. Amazon has previously claimed that the software was used to identify and rescue victims of human trafficking. Orlando police were meant to utilize the system by uploading photos of suspects to it, Rekognition would then search CCTV cameras for the suspect’s face.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) welcomed the announcement of the end of the project telling the Verge: “Congratulations to the Orlando Police Department for finally figuring out what we long warned — Amazon’s surveillance technology doesn’t work and is a threat to our privacy and civil liberties.” The ACLU found in a study conducted last July that Amazon’s facial recognition software incorrectly identified 28 members of Congress with images of people who had been arrested.

Breitbart News reported in February of 2019 that a study by MIT found that Amazon’s software has an error rate of approximately 31 percent when identifying the gender of images of women with dark skin while rival software developed by Kairos had an error rate of 22.5 percent and IBM’s software boasted a rate of just 17 percent. However, software from Amazon, Microsoft, and Kairos successfully identified images of light-skinned men 100 percent of the time.

Amazon is one of many companies that has expressed its support of protesters, including Twitter, Nike, Netflix, and Spotify.

Racism does not adhere to social distancing.

Amid the already growing fear and uncertainty around the pandemic, this week has again brought attention to something perhaps more pervasive: the long-standing racism and injustices faced by Black and Brown people on a daily basis.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...munity-in-fight-against-systemic-racism/

But they have free shipping

But they still love slavery

Who wears a down vest in the summer? [bleep] douche canoe.

Typical Amazon platitudes, nothing more.

Tomorrow, they'll say they back law enforcement's efforts to stop looting and rioting, as they love law enforcement.

Amazon not only has two faces, it speaks BS out of both mouths.

Dude is a d nozzle

Kinda like the trump gun lovers here at the fire

Hard to believe Nike supports the protests.

They just jacked and looted a Prime truck in Santa Monica (LA) a short while ago... A few more of these and that A Hole will change his tune real quick...

“The inequitable and brutal treatment of Black people in our country must stop.”

Ever wonder why the "inequitable and brutal treatment" of Asians, Hispanics, Irish, Jews, etc., etc., stopped?

Maybe because they are not hazardous to one's health. Maybe because they actually go out and get jobs and work.

Blacks need to learn it's time to fish or cut bait.

Bezos and Amazon talk out both sides of their mouth.

I have been, and still am, intimately involved in many cutting edge public safety programs with Amazon, including some AI/big data stuff that is highly innovative and cutting edge.

And I am ALSO aware that for every $1 dollar my company might make in partnership with Amazon, they fund the enemy with $2.

Makes the fun tech stuff I do with them, kind of bittersweet.

Pretty simple; dont engage the law fueled with alcohol and big pharma products and your cholesterol badass wont have immediate issues.

Stereotypes get eaten by facts.....

Oh yeah, never bought [bleep] from [bleep] and wont ever inthe future....

Suck it [bleep]!

I doubt it. A 53ft van chock full of iPhone 10's would not cover the rounding error on Bezo's bottom line. He did not get to be the richest man in the world without being fluent in "double talk"...

Translation: Don't bun our stuff. please.

I never have been a fan of Amazon. I can find what I want more quickly and for very close to the same money elsewhere.

It'd be interesting to see a couple of his new mega-warehouses burn to the ground while firefighters sat and watched.

Yep. Let's have many more unemployed...

Bezos knows that black people buy his crap too.

He shouldn't worry though,the cia will be there to help him again if necessary.

Amazon doesn’t want it’s warehouses burned down.