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Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-home-jerks dept.

mpicpp sends this report from Ars Technica: "Protests against tech giants and their impact on the San Francisco Bay Area economy just got personal. According to an anonymous submission on local news site Indybay, an unknown group of protesters targeted a Google engineer best known for helping to develop the company's self-driving car. ... The protest against Levandowski came the same day that the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority (SFMTA) voted for the first time to take action regulating Google, Facebook, Apple, and a number of other large tech companies that shuttle workers in private, Wi-Fi-enabled buses from the Bay Area to points south in Silicon Valley."

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  1. Re:The candlestick makers did the same thing... by fiannaFailMan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    They are total fucking morons. Their problem is with rising rents. Rising rents are a result of a shortage of housing in the city falling way short of demand. Shortage of housing in the city is the result of these same idiots objecting to every residential development taller than a gas station. Who do they blame? Not themselves, they prefer to scapegoat some tech workers, most of whom spend money in local businesses and help the local economy anyway. These ignorant cretins are so fucking stupid on so many levels I don't even know where to start.

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  2. Re:The problem with Google Bus by jcr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If every bus was carrying one person, you'd be right, but they don't, and you're a moron.

    -jcr

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