EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing

Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by dragonwriter on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:30PM (#18888227)

> If Bird leaves a scooter in the road, for someone else to use, they have relinquished the right to control the device, and it is thus abandoned

No, if they are charging use fees, offering money for people to choose charge them, etc., they have not relinquished all rights to control.

> the alternative is that they are deliberately littering or committing various other property infractions or misdemeanors.

That's a big false dichotomy.

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Re:EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing by Latteland on Friday January 11, 2019 @11:41PM (#18889695)

You can argue that, but you can't just go around stealing things that are sitting on the street or sidewalk. Can you take the doormat outside a door on a building? Or take a sign on the sidewalk? No. Take a sign that the city has left just screwed into a metal pole?

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