https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k4v9k/techsploitation-demonstrators-blocked-google-and-apple-buses-with-scooters > Several tech buses, ones headed for Google and Apple campuses, were blockaded Thursday morning by demonstrators protesting the “techsploitation” of San Francisco. > A group of activists stacked piles of electric scooters—a rent-by-the-minute ridesharing trend popularized by three startups—in the middle of an intersection in the Mission neighborhood. To many San Francisco residents, the ubiquitous scooters symbolize the tech industry’s disruptive presence in their city. One organizer told me the scooters were collected this morning, but said they couldn’t share more.