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https://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman-arrested-uber-eats-robot-protest/
This article has more from and about her. Even more based than before.
wait...so theres a place where robots are running unattended carrying product...and no porch pirates are vandalizing and taking the stuff? or have we just not gotten to this step yet? we still in incubator phase?
cuz look how well self checkout went...
Robots in a public space have now more rights than humans. Fuck this.
But it was carrying a succulent Chinese meal.
Capital has more rights than humans.
This got me thinking about how its illegal to ride bicycles on the sidewalk yet these little motorized carts are allowed but how?
The top priority of a police force is and has always been to protect the property of the wealthy and corporations.
I don't think the robot has MORE rights, the question here is if it should have ANY rights.
A person is not allowed to constantly block another person either, and refuse to stop even when police order it?
I also don't think it is allowed for a robot to constantly block a person. That would be a malfunction.
IMO if the robots can't navigate properly to not be unnecessarily in the way, they should not be allowed. But be sure to have a phone recording of that before "retaliating".
Also, we're not actually talking about the robot's rights, we're talking about the rights of a for profit company to operate their equipment. When a delivery robot goes on strike and tries to organize their workplace we should definitely talk about robots' rights, but I don't think that will happen anytime soon.
A person is not allowed to constantly block another person either, and refuse to stop even when police order it?
She didn't tho. A person would simply have walked around her, she is allowed to stand on the sidewalk and not move.
In liberal democracies property has always had more weight than human lives.
Yeah, actually it makes sense. They are property and the pigs' objective is to protect property.
This post's comment thread is great for filling out my blocklist.
Philly used to know what to do with robots...
Poor Hitchbot
Hitchbot was more land based, bottle to the sea than robot.
I still mourn that guy 😭
If some guys were raping a woman, the cops would not have shown up at all
They would. To join in.
According to police, Marvin repeatedly blocked the robot's path and ignored multiple commands from officers to move.
She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
Can standing in a public space legally be enforced as "disorderly conduct?"
Yes. If you're standing in the way of a wheelchair ramp someone needs and an officer asks you multiple times to move and you don't there should be recourse for that. I think it's pretty standard globally to have allowances for that.
Plenty of public places are protected and/or have areas you're not able to stand at all. Just because you're not on someone's private property doesn't mean you are entitled to be there or do whatever you want there. In the US we even have a loitering regulations that don't even require you to be specifically impeding something.
All that said, I think these robots should be more regulated and any companies using them are garbage.
Disorderly conduct is usually written so broadly that it can be anything the police say it is.
Being charged with disorderly conduct is basicly proof you did nothing wrong. If you'd done anything actually illegal they would've charged you with that.
You ever worked with middle-schoolers? Sometimes you need broad "don't be an asshat" rules because otherwise some jerks will make it their life's mission to make life hell for other people while technically not violating any rules.
If she kept moving to be in front of it, it's not just standing there as you're framing it.
wait I know her! she does this consistently here in Chinatown and on arch street by reading terminal market. always a joy to see, she's really funny with it.
the other day I saw her manage to block one into driving over a metal grate on the sidewalk, at which point its sensors must've gotten confused cause it just stood there and didn't move. I left after about 5 minutes, I wonder if someone had to come rescue it lol
May this lead to similar events.
it's philadelphia. i would be surprised if there wasn't.
I can't wait until I'm old enough to do shit like this. Not to worry about jail bc i'm old. It is going to be so much fun!