Commerce is political

[drwex]

To my Uber-using readers... if you do not support Drumph's anti-immigrant, refugee-killing, Islamophobic new policies you should consider whether switching from Uber to Lyft is something you can do.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/30/deleteuber-how-social-media-turned-on-uber?CMP=twt_gu

In short:
- Uber worked to break a work-stoppage protest by taxi drivers at JFK airport over the detention of people with legal visas.
- Uber's CEO is a member of Trump's Policy Forum. (*)
- Lyft has pledged a million corporate dollars to the ACLU

(*) Presumably the Forum approves of this policy. I would believe that it was not consulted, because Steve Bannon doesn't seem to want to consult anyone before bull-in-a-chinashopping the country. However, remaining silent in the face of this action is complicity. Silence = Death, about which I'll have more to say later.

Comments

[gingicat]

Also, I want to start a letter-writing campaign to Google to take Uber out of their Maps suggestions. After all, this is their Doodle today: https://www.google.com/doodles/fred-korematsus-98th-birthday

[drwex]

Nice. It's a not-very-subtle reminder that the Korematsu decision is still the law of the land.

[jducoeur]

Useful to know, and directly actionable -- it's time to make clear to corporate America that we're paying attention, and will whack them in the balance sheet if they misbehave. Thanks for pointing it out...