This article is inflammatory and slanted. It seems like the author cares less about reporting than about driving an anti-regulatory agenda.
>hilariously
>The City Of Austin Is Embarrassing Itself
>ham-fisted
>absurd
>un-ironic cluelessness
>senior correspondent for The Federalist.
That last one was an insult.
The content started just fine but progressively gets worse and worse with the authors opinions and vitriolic anger coloring the work.
The author labels as "onerous [regulations imposed by Austin City]" (in the linked article he wrote) avoiding providing detail for the regulations he judges as onerous:
"It seems there’s no new product or service that meddling liberals won’t figure out a way to regulate out of existence under the pretense of knowing what’s best for you.
"Over the weekend in the liberal bastion of Austin, Texas, a handful of pro-regulation voters opted to keep in place a host of petty, irrational, and burdensome regulations the city council imposed on ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft in December."
Ironically ending the unanalytical article with: "I know it sounds crazy, but it’s almost like they don’t care about solving these problems."
- http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/10/uber-lyft-were-driven-ou...
Look at the poster image - using a commonly maligned ethnic minority as the "face" of this movement. An attempt at bigotry IMO.
I suspect the first time someone is robbed or raped we'll get a cry-bully rant pushing blame onto the city.