Uber bans far-right activist who complained about Muslim Uber drivers
Source: Business Insider
Maxwell Tani
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Ride-hailing service Uber banned a far-right activist who complained about Muslim Uber drivers in the wake of a terrorist attack in New York City that was allegedly committed by a former Uber driver.
Uber told Business Insider in a brief email on Wednesday that Laura Loomer a former Project Veritas activist with over 100,000 Twitter followers had been banned for violating the platform's community guidelines.
Loomer posted a series of tweets complaining about Muslims following Tuesday's attack in which a former driver, who was Muslim, rammed into a bike lane, killing eight people and injuring 12.
Among those complaints, which sparked outrage online, Loomer lamented that she was late to a press conference because she could not find an Uber driver who she did not believe was Muslim.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-bans-laura-loomer-far-right-activist-who-tweeted-2017-11?r=UK&IR=T
irisblue
(33,059 posts)Her tweets today are awful.
Iris
(15,679 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)She's a fucking pig.
xor
(1,204 posts)Her shitty tweets were getting a lot of ridicule. She made some ridiculous tweet about some women wearing hijabs while walking across the street from where that attack happened in NYC. Just complete nonsense that seems more like attention seeking than anything else. I have little doubt she's a simple minded bigot, but the worst thing that could happen to her is for her to be ignored and fade into absolute irrelevance.