Uber bans far-right activist who complained about Muslim Uber drivers

[Judi Lynn]

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]

1. Good

Her tweets today are awful.

[Iris]

2. Fuck her. Why didnt she just get a cab?

[RhodeIslandOne]

4. She complained all the taxi drivers were Muslim

She's a fucking pig.

[xor]

3. I just learned about this lady today.

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.