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Civil Rights Groups Are Calling On Amazon To Cancel ‘Ring Nation’ Reality Show
There’s just one potential problem with the well-intentioned campaign: Amazon owns Ring, producer Big Fish Entertainment, and distributor MGM, and it also owns the Prime Video streaming service should it need somewhere to air it. It also has specific partnerships with thousands of police departments around the country should they happen to prove useful. This tower of vertical integration means that Ring Nation is a show designed from the ground up to leverage Amazon’s vast monopoly to push its own product on Americans, and it also means that it will probably (but not definitely) be impossible to kill. There’s very little chance that MGM executives will push back on the project when it’s probably exactly the type of thing Amazon imagined being able to do when it spent $8.5 billion on a merger with MGM this year. “Ring Nation is not a comedy but rather a propaganda strategy to normalize and further digitize racial profiling in our communities. Truthfully the cognitive dissonance about the dangers of these tools is a real concern. It’s striking to see a host who has been such a vocal supporter of racial justice protesters defend the very tech that was used to surveil activists during the uprisings in 2020,” said Myaisha Hayes, campaign strategy director at Cancel Ring Nation co-organizer Media Justice, in a statement.
“The Ring Nation reality-TV series is anything but funny. It weaponizes the joy of our daily lives in an attempt to manufacture a PR miracle for scandal-ridden Amazon,” Evan Greer, director of co-organizer Fight for the Future, said in a statement. “By normalizing surveillance, it will teach our children to relinquish their privacy in exchange for a quick laugh. In the coming weeks, Fight for the Future, Media Justice, and our org partners will be mobilizing our supporters and forming a loud and fearless coalition of civil rights groups to cancel Ring Nation,” Greer said.
The show is set to launch on Sept. 26, though it hasn’t been announced which networks will carry it.
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“Nicki Minaj Sent Barbz To Threaten to Kill Me”: Blogger Responds To Lawsuit For Calling Rapper a “Cokehead”
‘Good Form’ hitmaker Nicki Minaj is making good on her promise to clap back at critics who malign her good name.
No one knows this better than Nosey Heaux, who is currently seeing her name reach its highest heights on social media thanks to a lawsuit brought forth by Minaj for disparaging comments made on her gossip blog platform.
See all the drama that’s unfolded and how Heaux responded to it all.
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Lil Kim Denies Dissing Nicki Minaj’s Son on Megan Thee Stallion ‘Plan B’ Remix/ Slams 50 Cent For Calling Her Child’s Eye ‘F*cked Up’
Is Lil Kim the most disrespected legend ever? She sure seems to think so.
The Queen Bee has been on the receiving end of stinging criticism since Funkmaster Flex took to Hot 97 radio Thursday (September 8) to preview her verse on the remix to Megan Thee Stallion‘s ‘Traumazine’ hit ‘Plan B.’
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Aries Spears On Mike Epps Calling Him “A B*tch” In Defense of Lizzo: “Step Your Funny Game Up”
As comedian Aries Spears saw his name soar to trending heights on social media two weeks ago in response to his unprovoked criticism of GRAMMY-winning singer Lizzo and her physique (as we reported here), a number of commenters – celebrity and all – weighed in on the topic.
Among the more headline-grabbing responses was that of actor-comedian Mike Epps,
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My iPhone is calling to me with a different voice
Apple’s upcoming iOS 16 update brings with it a lot of new features — things like the ability to customize your Lock Screen, edit iMessages, or copy written text from a video. But Apple’s also made an under-the-radar change to some of the iPhone’s sounds, which some of us hear at The Verge noticed while using the betas.
When you go to the Find My app and choose the “play sound” option for an iOS / iPadOS 16 device, you’ll now be greeted with what sounds like an electronic xylophone, instead of the pinging sound that played on iOS 15 and before. The change also applies to when you ask your Apple Watch to ping your phone for you, except the sound plays once instead of over and over. One of my co-workers described the new sound as higher…
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Dennis Bovell on his finest albums: “I have no problem calling the shots”
Originally published in Uncut’s July 2022 issue Pioneering producer, songwriter, dubmaster and now MBE, Dennis Bovell has been busy as ever as he heads towards his eighth decade. In the last year alone, there have been ongoing dub reimaginings for the likes of Animal Collective and The Smile, various archival and new Bandcamp releases, and […]
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