This January 29(anniversary of the arrival of Uber in Lausanne,but it has nothing to do with it…), the Twitter tag #DeleteUber appears in the "top trends" of the English hashtags Uber. The revolt rumbles.
In an article in Mashable,we learn that the cause of this boycott movement (or rather its growing momentum these days), is the decision of Uber New York to disable the fare increase at JFK airport during a strike of the services of (other) taxis that had been organized in protest against the "Muslim Ban" (the ban on entry into the United States of certain Muslim citizens decided by Donald Trump).
Surge pricing has been turned off at #JFK Airport. This may result in longer wait times. Please be patient.
— Uber NYC (@Uber_NYC) January 29, 2017
Uber has therefore been accused of being a "scab" actively supporting racism and xenophobia.
This popular revolt is also the result of comments made by the CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick, who said in front of his employees it is necessary to work with Trump to fulfill the mission of Uber improve global transport.
Of course, uber replied by saying that they had no intention to break a strike. However, many users have tweeted their screenshot of their Uber account deletion:
Uber picked the wrong city in which to be racist scabs #deleteuber pic.twitter.com/nWKZ9NZka0
— Kate Berg (@katebergie) January 29, 2017
The activity of the hashtag #DeleteUber currently:
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