Foolishness and Hypocrisy of #DeleteUber

#DeleteUber is asocial media protest against Uber. The protest surged following a New York City taxi impromptu strike at JFK airport following the Trump order banning air travel from seven nations.

Let’s dissect the stupidity and hypocrisy of the #DeleteUber movement because there is plenty of it going around.

MarketWatch explains: Consumers lash out at Uber and turn to Lyft after Uber’s immigration response.

Uber Technologies Inc. was in critics’ crosshairs while Lyft Inc. was winning support after the companies’ very different responses to President Donald Trump’s immigration order.

The backlash came as New York taxi drivers went on strike Saturday and joined a protest at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport against Trump’s order blocking entry to the U.S. by immigrants from select largely Muslim countries, while a tweet from Uber indicated the company had suspended surge pricing, causing some to view the company as seeking to undermine the strike.

Lyft largely stayed out of Saturday’s confrontation but sent an email to users Sunday saying that the company would be donating $1 million over the next four years to the American Civil Liberties Union.

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, with a membership of 19,000 people, had called on all drivers, including those with Uber and Lyft, not to pick up passengers from JFK and to instead join the protest. The group said its membership is largely Muslim and made up of immigrants, and that it was “in defense of the oppressed,” as well as its own drivers, that it was speaking out against the ban.

Uber’s Action

In response to huge numbers of people trapped at the airport unable to leave, Uber issued this tweet.

Uber refused to implement surge pricing. For that, one misguided fool who cannot think replied.

Stop and think about this for a second. If Uber’s intent was to break the strike, it would have allowed higher prices thereby encouraging more driver to travel farther to pick up riders.

In fact, that is precisely what Uber should have done. Nonetheless, Hunter Failson @Bro_Pair continued with mindless rants.