Posted on 09/06/2023 4:00:53 PM PDT by lowbridge
Google is moving a technology conference out of San Francisco, as the city struggles with high crime and rampant drug use.
The company will host its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas next year, SFGATE reported. Google held the conference at the city's Moscone Center last week, as it had from 2017-2019, for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. It had planned to host the 2024 iteration of the conference in San Francisco as well, but it canceled the booking in July. Google declined to give SFGATE a specific reason for pulling the conference out of San Francisco.
The $1.7 trillion company's decision comes as dozens of other businesses have scaled back their operations in San Francisco as the city deals with widespread crime, homelessness, and drug use. Between 2020 and 2022, homicides increased 40 percent, and fentanyl deaths have also spiked, resulting in a number of companies pulling events, headquarters, and office space out of San Francisco.
Last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said his company may pull its massive "Dreamforce" conference out of the city next year, citing public safety concerns. Benioff said this year's conference will inject $57 million into the downtown economy.
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Ouch!
“Google Pulls Conference Out of Crime-Ridden San Francisco”
Why does Google HATE BLACKS? Perhaps it has something to do with their workforce being 95% plus Asian and/or White?
Just wondering.
Bunch of wusses. Only problem is that the attendees would probably blend in with the locals.
well beyond elections policies also have consequences
Companies like Salesforce and Google have relentlessly pushed the left-wing politics that have turned SF into the s***-hole that it currently is. In a just world, they would never be allowed to leave SF. In the world we live in, they make a mess and run away.
Isn’t that Pisslosie territory?
Well, if they want to call it “crime,” that’s just their opinion, man.
Just Skype or zoom it
Too bad. Give every attendee a poop pan and a shovel and the neighborhood would be cleaned up in no time at all. Where is their public relations spirit?
I wonder how far SF will fall before wokesters admit crime is a bad thing.
The good news is that the straight guys won’t have to wear flowers in their man buns.
They know crime is a bad thing.
They also know it hastens the coming Revolution.
And once the Revolution is complete, the streets will be safer than ever. The crime rate will be 0%, no murders, no muggings. Well no murders, except for the ones committed by the “Revolutionary Government” that is.
Should sue somehow to force them to remain because they’re fleeing the nest they crapped in and the fruits of their ideology.
Should sue somehow to force them to remain because they’re fleeing the nest they crapped in and the fruits of their ideology.
^^^^^^^^
This!
San Francisco is a shitty city.
Why Google? Aren’t the thieves and druggies ‘your kind of people’?
They ARE the fruit of the suck you constantly vote for, ya’ know?
F’n idiots.
San Francisco is competing to be the Detroit of the west.
I’d much rather be in Detroit than San Francisco. Detroit’s worst days are behind it.
Kill SF...put it out of it’s misery.
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