A Center City Philadelphia woman was arrested after allegedly refusing to move out of the path of a delivery robot, a confrontation that was captured on video and has since drawn attention online.
  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    315·
    3 days ago

    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”.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
      29·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      912·
      3 days ago

      I agree, protesting and demonstrating are one thing, but you have to know when you’ve made your point and let it go. If there are that many robots traveling in that area, she can make her point briefly over and over and be more of an impact. Repeated resistance with media coverage will get others to maybe even join in, or at least don’t use a company that does it. This is a one-off where her message got lost in the question on if she pushed her rights too far.

      • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        24·
        3 days ago

        She got notices. We’re discussing it. There will be more people doing this. She has achieved exactly what her protest sought to achieve

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          22·
          3 days ago

          You’re probably right in retrospect. People will copy this, and it will become a problem, and the police, who are there to protect property are going to do just that. My point was just there might be better ways to do this instead of directly. Other blockade and sit-in tactics for other topics have gotten the attention they were there for, but didn’t change the actual problem. We’ll see how this goes as it gets worse.

          • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            8·
            3 days ago

            There are other ways. But better isn’t the word I’d use. There isn’t any one tactic that gets anything done. Which is why you must employ a diversity of tactics. This is part of that.