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#DeleteUber:Campaign against the taxi company over Trump’s Muslim imigration ban by adegoody(m): 8:17am On Jan 30, 2017
Hundreds of Uber users have taken screenshots of themselves deleting the ride-hailing app, accusing it of profiting as New York taxi drivers held a strike against President Donald Trump's ban on Muslim travellers and refugees.

The hashtag #DeleteUber trended worldwide on Sunday as users also accused the company's CEO of collaborating with the new US president.

Drivers affiliated with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance had refused to pick up airport passengers between 6pm and 7pm local time on Saturday as protesters rallied against Trump's discriminatory ban inside John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) .

Hundreds gathered at the airport's Terminal Four arrivals section holding placards and chanting: "No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!" and "No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here!"

Users said Uber continued to service rides to and from JFK, while taxi drivers held the strike in solodarity against Trump's order banning refugees and travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries.

However, while Uber automatically charges more for rides when demand is high, the company switched this function off during the one-hour taxi strike.The city's taxi drivers, many of whom are immigrants or have roots in Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, had urged Uber to join their boycott.
Uber has also faced criticism after CEO Travis Kalanick joined Trump's business advisory council, a group comprising the leaders of a variety of major US corporations.

Several protesters barricaded the front of Uber's headquarters in San Francisco on Friday over Kalanick's ties to Trump.

Twitter and Facebook users began taking screenshots of themselves deleting their Uber accounts, including messages they were sending to the company.

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Re: #DeleteUber:Campaign against the taxi company over Trump’s Muslim imigration ban by pchukwudi: 8:19am On Jan 30, 2017
smiley
Funny people.
Not only the uberapp.
Why not Google?
Facebook?
Twitter?
In fact delete the internet too!
Re: #DeleteUber:Campaign against the taxi company over Trump’s Muslim imigration ban by Kondomatic(m): 8:20am On Jan 30, 2017
Alright
Re: #DeleteUber:Campaign against the taxi company over Trump’s Muslim imigration ban by petrov10: 8:26am On Jan 30, 2017
Delete na

Not everyone will delete
Real American patriots will still patronise uber

Muslims should get da fu©k out
They should keep bombing themselves where ever they re.

Just last month a Muslim guy killed people in Germany, with. His truck, just imagine

I wish he the ban was extended to northern
nigeria

Nonsense lipsrsealed undecided angry

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