Ring’s new TV show sounds like a dystopian America’s Funniest Home Videos
by Charles Pulliam-Moore from The Verge - All Posts on (#62DTR)
Image: Amazon Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company that'll sell you a camera just as swiftly as it will give law enforcement access to that same camera's footage without a warrant, is producing a television show that sounds an invitation to participate in the surveillance state. You know, as a fun family activity.
Deadline reports that Wanda Sykes has signed on to host Ring Nation, a new America's Funniest Home Videos-style clip show from MGM Television, Ring, and Big Fish Entertainment, the production company behind Live P.D. Described as a daily dose of life's unpredictable, heartwarming and hilarious viral videos" in a press release, Ring Nation will feature footage captured on people's Ring cameras presented in a way that's meant to be...