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Portland transit authority used geo-fence to exclude scooters from downtown area (wweek.com)
2 points by anigbrowl on Sept 3, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Will this be applied to self-driving taxis as well, once we have them? Will we have less right to protest unless we can afford to own, instead of rent?

This is a gray area even when it's a private company deciding how their services may be used, once the company gets big enough. But in this case it was done at the direction of government, which I think makes it unambiguously an infringement of freedom of movement.




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