@JonathanMosen wow, what a story, what a perfect storm, o much to say about this, there is still so much accessibility advocating to be done worldwhide, but also in the uS, So glad I don’t liv there,

@JonathanMosen wow, this Troy dude is just shit. he should get the worse hate and stuff, and uber should lose half of their money.

@JonathanMosen For some reason, this website blocks me from access. Is there a way to get the text here?

@JonathanMosen Oh that's horrible.

@JonathanMosen OMG! How aweful. Just aweful & don't know what to say.

@JonathanMosen As someone who lives in Houston, it was disturbing to hear about the county officers treatment of that woman. I'm not a guide dog user, and overall I've had good experiences with Uber, but that article makes me wonder what I would do if I ever had anything go wrong with a driver.

@JonathanMosen the link doesn't work

@JonathanMosen Man, that was tough to read let alone experience, I’m sure

@JonathanMosen I know this isn't going to be a very popular statement, but regardless of the language used in the article, none of what got done to this group was a matter of lack of education on anyone's part. Uber knows damn well what the law states, as does law enforcement. and as long as people continue to make it a matter of education or lack thereof, incidents like the ones described in the article in question are going to continue to occur. It's time to lose the politically correct excuse that the people responsible for such acts of discrimination are simply uneducated. This is the 21st century, not the 17th, 18th, or 19th, and we're living in the information age, where a simple set of keystrokes or gestures can give one almost immediate access to pretty much any bit of information they desire. It's time for accountability on the part of rideshare platforms and law enforcement to be demanded, not simply requested. People have, for years on end, been doing things "The Nice Way" and incidents of discrimination on the part of both rideshare platforms and law enforcement are on the rise, as they are pretty much across the board. and as long as the attitude that states "Oh they're just uneducated" continues to be used, nothing is going to improve.

@JonathanMosen I'll give you an excellent example of what I'm talking about on a local level. In fact, there are two incidents I can sight, so I'll be splitting this into two separate toots. A bit over a month ago, I finished up having to go to the emergency room thanks to an issue with one of my hips locking up. when it came time for me to be discharged, a staff member in the hospital automatically demanded that my "care giver" take me up to get my prescription. When I stated that it's a myth that all blind people have care givers, the staff member in question made to refuse to aid me up to the pharmacy, at least until I threatened to go public on social media and not only give the name and location of the hospital in question, but her name as well. When she discovered that I wasn't playing about, she suddenly was able to get me upstairs to get my prescription, regardless of how supposedly busy she'd been less than two minutes before. In that situation, lack of education didn't enter into it. I find it interesting how that staff member suddenly not only knew the law, but abided by it when it became clear she'd be outed publicly for discrimination against the blind.

@JonathanMosen The second incident took place earlier this month in a grocery store I'd shopped at I don't even know how often over the last three years. In fact, I'd even had a nearly ritualistic means of shopping. I'd use the shop's app to put my grocery list together before even going in to do my shopping, show the list to one of their staff, and they'd gather my groceries, after which I'd pay for the shopping and return to my apartment. when I went to get my shopping done earlier this month, I was refused assistance on the grounds that they were supposedly understaffed and I should have brought a care giver with me, regardless of how I could hear five people behind the guest care counter busily gossiping. When I brought that up, I was told "Oh you better from now on call ahead of time or get a care giver", and when I brought up the fact that I'd tried calling the shop for various information several times before and nobody had answered the phone, I was told it wasn't their problem. And once more, just like the incident in the hospital last month, the moment I went public on social media, which they witnessed me doing, they suddenly had enough staff there to get my groceries and load them into my buggy and check me out. Once more, not a lack of education situation in any way, shape, or form. What they were hoping for was a "go along to get along" blind person, which they didn't get.