#DeleteUber? Really? / myLot

January 31, 2017 11:40pm CST

Look, I get that there's a wide range of opinion out there about Trump's immigration moratorium order, but targeting Uber because they won't go on strike over it? Really now? When did it become Uber's responsibility to integrate political activism into their business model? You know who loses out when you boycott Uber? Uber drivers... some of whom might very well be (oh get this) themselves immigrants for all we know. I just don't think it's fair to politicize Uber rides. It strikes me as an entitled attitude - "companies need to espouse the correct politics or we will run social media campaigns to put them out of business". For my point of view, I want to give my money to companies that provide quality products and excellent customer service - the political opinions of the employees or managers is irrelevant.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (326776)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Feb 17

I haven't heard much about this but it seems to me that social media has a lot to answer for sometimes.

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Colin Clyde

@cavalierscholar (205)

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3 Feb 17

agreed, this phenomena wouldn't be happening without social media. Check out Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed", a lot there relevant to this.

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