Thursday, March 25, 2021

"It's not Orwellian if it's private enterprise! If you don't like it, start your own commercial behemoth!"

Just anticipating the usual brain-dead libertariot responses to this development:

Amazon drivers must consent to invasive biometric workplace surveillance or be fired.

Telescreens are just fine if corporations are using them, comrades!

Some drivers are understandably concerned about the new technology, as Amazon will be collecting data on everything from miles driven, speed, acceleration, braking, turns, and following distance. The cameras can even sense when a driver yawns (or appears to), and certain behaviors will trigger the sending of footage to Amazon, which could be used to reprimand drivers later. Reuters has reported some drivers have quit instead of signing the consent form. 

Hat tip to Liberty Journal for this revelation.

4 comments:

  1. You might hear them from libertarians. Lately, I only hear these things from partisan Democrats when a corporation is abusing someone they despise. The arguments in question would never occur to them if one of their preferred mascots were being harassed by a commercial company. We live in a world of lies.

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  2. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/393390.php

    Naomi Wolf is sounding the alarm on 'vaccine passports'.

    (Alan Dershowitz, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Naomi Wolfe are the people critiquing the half-Mexican half-Chinese political economy the Democrats are attempting to build. We're all living in strange and all too interesting times).

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  3. This fellow is a law professor at UCLA and UCSD. You thought Naomi Wolf was being florid?

    https://twitter.com/harrylitman/status/1376293633746366465

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  4. If you can't bring your truckers to a cubicle, install the cubicle in the truck

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