Posted on 06/13/2020 8:03:59 AM PDT by Salman
Amazon, Apple and Google's voice assistants offer words of solidarity when you say the phrase.
Tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google have pledged donations to racial justice in the wake of George Floyd's death, and are also using their voice assistants to spread awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. They also respond to "all lives matter," a phrase often associated with criticism of the BLM movement.
Saying "Black Lives Matter" to Amazon's Alexa prompts a firm response.
echo-dot-3-amazon-event-2 In response the phrase, "Black Lives Matter," Amazon's Alexa suggests you visit the BLM and NAACP websites.
Ben Fox Rubin/CNET Tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google have pledged donations to racial justice in the wake of George Floyd's death, and are also using their voice assistants to spread awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. They also respond to "all lives matter," a phrase often associated with criticism of the BLM movement.
Saying "Black Lives Matter" to Amazon's Alexa prompts a firm response.
For more like this Subscribe to the CNET Now newsletter for our editors' picks for the most important stories of the day. "Black lives matter. I believe in racial equality. I stand in solidarity with the black community in the fight against systemic racism and injustice," it says. "To learn how you can take action, I recommend visiting blacklivesmatter.com and NAACP.org."
Using the phrase "all lives matter" won't get a response from Alexa, but asking it as a question -- "Do all lives matter?" -- does.
"All lives matter. However, black lives are disproportionately in danger in the fight against systemic racism and injustice," it says, with the same links.
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Also I suppose taking note of those who ask about “all lives”.
More than likely a flag will be thrown alerting the powers that be that you are now to be classified as racis’.
F this - this is NOT spreading awareness.
This is a totalitarian fascist dictatorship occurring before our very eyes.
Do we, as whites, have to start rioting now for our voices to be heard?
Deleting my Amazon account today. Should have done this three years ago.
Did you see Lowe’s is giving grants to only “minority owned” small businesses to help them restart. White business owners, you’re too privileged already, apparently.
Siri is now turned OFF on all my apple devices and I suggest you all do the same for your devices.
I had the listen feature off but could still activate it for phone calls.
No more - I’ll just dial it myself. I don’t have any other voice tech.
What’s Big Sister’s response to “all lives matter” and “white lives matter”?
Because it’s not charity - It’s BLACKmail and the typical racist shakedown.
I tried White Lives Matter with siri, and the others.
So high tech is nothing more than an extension of the Big Brother intrusion into our minds, thoughts, and speech.
So sick of this pandering to the black community.
Was notified from my banking institutes CEO today their position on this black lives matter social justice issue being drum-beated on society now. But not a single word on how the black ommunity has a responsibility or pariticipation in acquiring solutions to their rolls in creating their problems.
It’s all about throwing more ‘stuff’ out there and yet the attitude and mindset of the lack community doesn’t change.......as we will see the next time they create violence and destruction.
“What has BLM done for the African Americans except riot and destroy what Trump has done for them.”
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“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
- Booker T. Washington, historical black educator and Presidential advisor
The three stooges?
I have never spoken to a machine before. And I am too old to start talking to machines now. A pox on all three houses.
Yep......every few years this happens. Every stage as it progresses exactly the same. And the freebees and special treatments roll.....I’ve heard blacks laughing about how they pull this off and society buys it every time.
Because they always and purposely ignore:
Abortion - millions of innocent black babies murdered in the womb.
Big city black thugs - murder hundreds and hundreds of other blacks yearly.
Drugs - overdoses kill hundreds and hundreds of blacks yearly.
Poor health - obesity, diabetes, heart disease, smoking and alcohol abuse kills thousands of blacks yearly.
Illegitimacy - thousands and thousands of fatherless black children.
Illiteracy - thousands and thousands of black youths that cannot read or do math.
Social media is scourge of the earth.
I don’t like being lectured to, certainly not by an inanimate object. And in any case I would never allow one of those snooper devices in my home. Amazon has become almost unusable over the past few months. Their product database is now filthy with third-party vendors’ stuff, much of it deceptively described and assigned bogus 5-star reviews. The Chinese are the worst. The search function routinely turns up tens of thousands of results, and filtering and winnowing is useless when sellers are allowed to add their own misleading tags and search terms. And delivery now routinely takes a month or more. Maybe they’re trying to inconvenience me into subscribing to their Prime service.
No we should have months ago. We should have already set meeting points and have groups online where we could meet to protest as to confront antifa and BLM head-on. But we are waiting around like a bunch of fruits.
And now Trump changed his speaking engagement because of Juneteenth? Pretty soon it will be a Federal holiday maybe they will take away President’s day
he is taking a lot of wrong advice to heart lately and it’s very very bad. I could have voted for somebody else to fold if I wanted to.
yes I love the job he’s doing so everybody calm down and I know he has to worry about optics before the election but yeah this is folding
“Also I suppose taking note of those who ask about “all lives”.”
It’ll soon reach a point that you’re a racist if you DON’T have Siri, Google Asst, or Alexa so they can lecture you on social justice issues.
= = = =
Knock, knock, knock...
“Citizen, we understand you do not have any of the approved social justice auto-instructors in your home.”
“We are here to correct that problem.”
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