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Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in Philadelphia after blocking an Uber delivery robot, The Verge reports, citing local station ABC13.
Why it mattersMarvin told ABC13 she was protesting the robots because they take delivery workers’ jobs. Police asked her to move; when she refused, they arrested her, according to the account. It’s a small street-level flashpoint in the debate over automation: the machines are becoming common enough to draw protests, and those protests can end in handcuffs.
Discuss: Should blocking a delivery robot be treated as a public-order offence, or as legitimate protest against job-displacing technology?
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