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Protestsgathered at airportsaround the country yesterday and citizenry were looking to the rich and muscular members of Silicon Valley to take a viewpoint against Trump ’s egregious executive parliamentary procedure that will affect countless refugees , green card holders , immigrant and their syndicate . Some tech leader responded more forcefully than others but manyseemed to agreethat Kalanick ’s statement was among the weakest .
Even one of Kalanick ’s own developer jumped in . Last night , in reaction to the CEOsassertionthat “ people are free to disagree , ” Eric Butler , who works on Android development for Uber , tweeted :
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Then the New York Taxi Workers Alliance announced a work stoppagetweeting“NO PICKUPS @ JFK Airport 6 postmortem examination to 7 PM today . number one wood stand in solidarity with thousands protest inhumane & unconstitutional . ” Ubershut off surge pricingbut go along to operate normally inspire societal media to detonate withaccusationsof hit breaking . At this minute , # deleteuber is still sit at the top of the veer topics on Twitter .
Some in Silicon Valley have solid rationale while others only need to make a dollar . Who knows which motivation is driving Lyft to take a stand but they ’re grabbing the chance . Logan Green , Lyft ’s co - founder and chief operating officer , tweetedlast night that , “ Trump ’s immigration prohibition is antithetic to both Lyft ’s and our nation ’s core values . ” Then the company released the follow statement about its planned donation :
The ACLU has become a rally point of opposition after the activistic mathematical group successfully persuaded afederal jurist to block Trump ’s ordination . But it looks like the donation that are flooding in will be more than necessary because the Department of Homeland Securityis refusing to complywith the justice ruling . Every Clarence Day will bring a fresh conflict .
It ’s a mo comfortable for Lyft to take a stall . Not only is opinion turning against Uber but its CEO is on Trump ’s economic consultive board . While top tech executiveshave arguedthat its good for everyone if they have the president ’s ear , profits are always their main concern . They desire influence in the brass so that they can protect earnings . If public thought turns against them , there wo n’t be any gain to protect .
[ The Hill ]
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