Tech Rides Are Focus of Hostility in Bay Area
2nd February 2014
Even as the tech companies extend their global reach and jostle to own the future, their hometown is turning from admiration to anger. The buses, which illegally use city stops, have become an unlikely rallying point. First, people were priced out of their homes, activists say; now they are being pushed off the streets.
I’m curious as to how busses can ‘illegally’ use ‘city stops’. A government bus has special privileges? Nobody gets to intrude into their sacred personal space? Even for three minutes? Who are these Drones of the State that feel entitled to resent people using mass transit? I suppose they would feel better if each used a personal car? But no … then they’d whine about that. There’s no pleasing some people, using the term loosely.
The group that stalked Anthony Levandowski, an engineer at Google X, the company’s clandestine research laboratory, calls itself the Counterforce, after a Thomas Pynchon novel. About a dozen members, all dressed in black, gathered outside the Berkeley house where Mr. Levandowski lives with his partner and two young children.
They unfurled a banner and handed out fliers detailing the engineer’s work on Google’s driverless car technology, Street View and Google Maps. The flier read: “Anthony Levandowski is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation. He is also your neighbor.”
When the Luddites start to organize into mobs, then it’s time to decamp. Come to Texas. You’ll never look back.
February 3rd, 2014 at 02:46
The peasantry of Leftist academics and activists should be filled with hatred at at the productive, the useful, the competent, and their betters. That’s their purpose.
February 3rd, 2014 at 02:48
Go to Texas, but leave your politics and perversions behind. Austin isn’t even San Diego.