Wanda Sykes: will we be laughing to You’ve Been Snooped On?
28.08.2022 - 05:23
/ msn.com
Ring Nation, which is due to air in some parts of the United States next month, she might not have anticipated that it would become the target of a US senator’s ire. The series is billed as a You’ve Been Framed or Candid Camera type collection of lighthearted clips taken from people’s doorbell videos. It is made by MGM, which is owned by Amazon, which also owns home-security firm Ring, making it a family affair.
It should have been an easy gig. I imagine Harry Hill narrates You’ve Been Framed in his pyjamas, with one eye on the football results. Sykes could crack jokes about people tripping over their doorsteps in her sleep.
But Senator Ed Markey has spent considerable time investigating Ring and its questionable practices over such minor matters as civil liberties and privacy. In July, he revealed that Amazon had given Ring footage to law enforcement officials 11 times this year, without the user’s consent. However, for the TV show, MGM says it will seek the permission of the owner and any identifiable people in the footage, which is nice.
“The Ring platform has too often made over-policing and over-surveillance a real and pressing problem for America’s neighbourhoods, and attempts to normalise these problems are no laughing matter,” Markey told the Hollywood Reporter. TV clip shows are an oddity in the digital world. Watching something like You’ve Been Framed, and I am still partial on occasion, is a strange experience.
It’s like scrolling through your phone extremely slowly, while a stranger tells you how funny the next bit is. I never understand the compulsion to turn viral online content into TV, when all TV wants to do is go viral. If only that was the main issue.
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