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Right, and on Sunday he followed up by unambiguously calling the ban "wrong and unjust".[1] Which was also a fumble because it sounded like a reaction to the bl

by abalone 10y ago

Right, and on Sunday he followed up by unambiguously calling the ban "wrong and unjust".[1] Which was also a fumble because it sounded like a reaction to the blowback. Also interesting: Uber pledged $3M to help drivers right now. Lyft pledged just $250K/year.. to the ACLU (annual budget: $133M). But Uber lost that one too. People want war with Trump, not diplomacy. As for turning off surge pricing, clearly it was after the strike and meant to reduce customer complaints about surge pricing after exceptional events. But it also means they were "effectively undercutting taxi drivers as they returned to work after protesting."[2] Another "Doh!" moment for Uber. [1] https://newsroom.uber.com/standing-up-for-the-driver-community/ https://newsroom.uber.com/standing-up-for-the-driver-communi... [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/lyft-and-ubers-immigration-ban/514889/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/lyft-an...

vkou 10y ago
> People want war with Trump, not diplomacy. The man just unilaterally stranded thousands of permanent residents outside of the country - and the departments enforcing this are disobeying legal court orders to halt the ban. This is a fundamental attack on the rule of law. How exactly do you negotiate with that? "Please, sir, could you stop destroying lives?" Do you think that he is too stupid to understand the consequences of his actions?
- abalone 10y ago
  I'm not endorsing the tactic of joining Trump's advisory board. IMHO people who speak truth to power are talking to the wrong people. I'm just observing why people are responding better to Lyft's messaging than Uber despite Lyft also operating during and after the strike. I will however point out that if you're boycotting Uber over joining the advisory board then you should do the same for all the others, including Elon Musk's companies. Maybe you should even boycott Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and all the others that took a meeting with him, since they are also taking a diplomatic route. Oh, and this is fun: Trump advisors Peter Thiel and Carl Icahn are part-owners of Lyft.

by abalone 10y ago

vkou 10y ago

> People want war with Trump, not diplomacy. The man just unilaterally stranded thousands of permanent residents outside of the country - and the departments enforcing this are disobeying legal court orders to halt the ban. This is a fundamental attack on the rule of law. How exactly do you negotiate with that? "Please, sir, could you stop destroying lives?" Do you think that he is too stupid to understand the consequences of his actions?

abalone 10y ago
I'm not endorsing the tactic of joining Trump's advisory board. IMHO people who speak truth to power are talking to the wrong people. I'm just observing why people are responding better to Lyft's messaging than Uber despite Lyft also operating during and after the strike. I will however point out that if you're boycotting Uber over joining the advisory board then you should do the same for all the others, including Elon Musk's companies. Maybe you should even boycott Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and all the others that took a meeting with him, since they are also taking a diplomatic route. Oh, and this is fun: Trump advisors Peter Thiel and Carl Icahn are part-owners of Lyft.