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Anyone find it lame how people are tweeting about an incident instead of communicating with each other when they're like 10 feet away? Don't expect to reason w

Anyone find it lame how people are tweeting about an incident instead of communicating with each other when they're like 10 feet away? Don't expect to reason with protesters if you're not even willing to talk to them. Way to be the uptight sheltered techies you're being made out to be. That being said, I don't think it's legal to block a vehicle, and protesters would probably be better served doing something productive rather than complaining immaturely in this matter. Shame on everyone!

sp332 13y ago
Who says they're not communicating with each other, as well as dozens of people on twitter? Edit: as to why they didn't talk to the protesters, it's because they were busy yelling and there's a bus in between them.
negrit 13y ago
I don't think they care about it being legal. All they want is media attention and people talking about it. It works.
lotso 13y ago
>That being said, I don't think it's legal to block a vehicle, and protesters would probably be better served doing something productive rather than complaining immaturely in this matter. Would you have said the same thing about the Greensboro sit-ins? Not trying to be snarky, curious as to where the line is drawn for being productive or being a nuisance in your opinion.
mhurron 13y ago
> I don't think it's legal to block a vehicle Civil Disobedience is pretty much by definition illegal.
- baddox 13y ago
  Civil disobedience just means deliberately breaking laws. For your argument to make any sense, you still have to demonstrate that blocking a vehicle is breaking the law.
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zem 13y ago
> Anyone find it lame how people are tweeting about an incident instead of communicating with each other when they're like 10 feet away? no, it's like the "open letter"s you see floating about the internet - they don't care one way or another about the protesters, they are actually addressing the people whose opinions on the matter they do care about (in this case, their twitter followers)
cynicalkane 13y ago
I am not obligated to "reason" with anyone who stops me, illegally, and demands my attention. I don't see why it's different for the average Google employee.
- tedivm 13y ago
  They blocked in a bus that was illegally parked. No one forced you to get on the bus that was violating city codes. What these people are complaining about is a two tiered system, where one set of laws apply to the people who live in the city and another set apply to corporations like Google. Why should that bus get to do something that common citizens are not allowed to, simply because it's owned by a company instead of a person?
  - yid 13y ago
    > Why should that bus get to do something that common citizens are not allowed to, simply because it's owned by a company instead of a person? It shouldn't, but that's not an issue for a mob to take up. Call the police, or go talk to your local legislators if tech companies are being given unfair perks, but taking justice into your own hands is illegal for a very good reason.
    - tedivm 13y ago
      If this was an issue about net neutrality, trade treaties, bitcoin, or any other number of issues then we'd have a thread full of people celebrating those protesters who were making their voices heard. Instead we're rally behind some people who had to sit in a bus for an extra thirty minutes than they normally would. It's a miracle those poor souls managed to last as long as they did- can you imagine what kind of tragedy it would have been if the bus's wifi had broke down?
      - ahomescu1 13y ago
        Protesting against the government is completely different from protesting against private individuals in a private bus.

sp332 13y ago

Who says they're not communicating with each other, as well as dozens of people on twitter? Edit: as to why they didn't talk to the protesters, it's because they were busy yelling and there's a bus in between them.

negrit 13y ago

I don't think they care about it being legal. All they want is media attention and people talking about it. It works.

lotso 13y ago

>That being said, I don't think it's legal to block a vehicle, and protesters would probably be better served doing something productive rather than complaining immaturely in this matter. Would you have said the same thing about the Greensboro sit-ins? Not trying to be snarky, curious as to where the line is drawn for being productive or being a nuisance in your opinion.

mhurron 13y ago

> I don't think it's legal to block a vehicle Civil Disobedience is pretty much by definition illegal.

baddox 13y ago
Civil disobedience just means deliberately breaking laws. For your argument to make any sense, you still have to demonstrate that blocking a vehicle is breaking the law.
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zem 13y ago

> Anyone find it lame how people are tweeting about an incident instead of communicating with each other when they're like 10 feet away? no, it's like the "open letter"s you see floating about the internet - they don't care one way or another about the protesters, they are actually addressing the people whose opinions on the matter they do care about (in this case, their twitter followers)

cynicalkane 13y ago

I am not obligated to "reason" with anyone who stops me, illegally, and demands my attention. I don't see why it's different for the average Google employee.

tedivm 13y ago
They blocked in a bus that was illegally parked. No one forced you to get on the bus that was violating city codes. What these people are complaining about is a two tiered system, where one set of laws apply to the people who live in the city and another set apply to corporations like Google. Why should that bus get to do something that common citizens are not allowed to, simply because it's owned by a company instead of a person?
- yid 13y ago
  > Why should that bus get to do something that common citizens are not allowed to, simply because it's owned by a company instead of a person? It shouldn't, but that's not an issue for a mob to take up. Call the police, or go talk to your local legislators if tech companies are being given unfair perks, but taking justice into your own hands is illegal for a very good reason.
  - tedivm 13y ago
    If this was an issue about net neutrality, trade treaties, bitcoin, or any other number of issues then we'd have a thread full of people celebrating those protesters who were making their voices heard. Instead we're rally behind some people who had to sit in a bus for an extra thirty minutes than they normally would. It's a miracle those poor souls managed to last as long as they did- can you imagine what kind of tragedy it would have been if the bus's wifi had broke down?
    - ahomescu1 13y ago
      Protesting against the government is completely different from protesting against private individuals in a private bus.