Glad SF city government is finally being honest about their goal: to freeze SF in some imagined perfect past, without the threat of improvement or progression.

Doesn’t feel all that progressive to me ? https://t.co/QKt8i0NM0r

— Zak Spookoff ? (@zck) October 12, 2019

Almost any other city in the world would be proud to have Airbnb and Uber founded there.

San Francisco wants to make sure that never happens again.https://t.co/9aYQM56902 pic.twitter.com/2OBNdvDN8P

— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) October 12, 2019

@LondonBreed @RafaelMandelman, please oppose this plan to require pre-approval for innovation. The extra delays and costs would dissuade companies from operating here.

We should pass laws when actual public harm is happening, not before.https://t.co/JJ9Q6y7GCs

— Barak Gila (@barakgila) October 12, 2019

Fed up with "ask forgiveness, not permission," SF is creating an office to regulate new commercial innovations that intersect with the public realm. Past examples: sidewalk robots, scooters, Uber https://t.co/ZW3WDM0e9z

— Carolyn Said (@CSaid) October 8, 2019

Exactly the people you would expect to be mad about even the hint of consultation (Not regulation! Just letting the city know!) are in fact mad about this: https://t.co/GKi2xKZUrO

— Laurie Voss (@seldo) October 13, 2019

"Technology...should serve public’s best interests, not other way around" https://t.co/jgGE0iUkdz but tech companies call "indifference to local laws &infrastructure" innovation &regard "regulations as an afterthought" claiming wealth lets them "ask forgiveness, not permission"

— Reducing Complexity (@3reads) October 8, 2019

Why would you found a new tech company in San Francisco?

- high prices
- filthy streets
- constant break-ins
- random assaults

Now, the same city government which deemed straws problematic will be denying licenses to startups.

— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) October 12, 2019

VC crowd keeps saying this will make SF “the next Detroit” but frankly I think this is a smart move, in theory. SF is a small city, densely packed, and has enough problems without becoming an open air laboratory. https://t.co/PIJjIOqXs4

— Ben Munson (@archaica) October 13, 2019

I've said that San Francisco is the best city in the world (outside of China) to start an ambitious company.

And it has sounded increasingly absurd with time.

This is the last straw for me.

Now I think any other city could be the global tech capital. https://t.co/RWJS2zPKII

— James Mishra (@rishmishra) October 13, 2019

If baby strollers were invented today, San Francisco would try to ban them.

https://t.co/rUEK3p2YYo

— Yuri Sagalov (@yuris) October 12, 2019

Imagine pitching dozens of VC's for months to only then get to pitch a crew of bureaucrats that decides your fate.

The incompetence here is mind blowing.

SF to establish Office of Emerging Technology https://t.co/W5TXNriYOn

— Joe McCann (@joemccann) October 12, 2019

I absolutely get Balaji's view, and I share it. It's one of the reasons I'm running for DCCC in March 2020. The people running San Francisco are trying their damndest to kill the golden goose. Let's embrace new tech instead of killing it. https://t.co/uS2tEt1OC8 https://t.co/kSPYKCvwgg

— Steven Buss ? ? (@sbuss) October 13, 2019

Juxtapose Uber and Bird's recklessness with @Go_Revel who is actually working with cities and getting municipal buy in up front. Maybe if SV startups we're a bit smarter and self-aware the hammer wouldn't have to be brought down?

— Duncan S. Campbell (@duncan__c) October 12, 2019

San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Norman Yee unveiled a proposal to create an Office of Emerging Technology to help the city get ahead of the next wave of new devices and services taking off in the high-tech sphere. https://t.co/bLZQCiCtzD

— KQED (@KQED) October 11, 2019

The scorn with which this is being greeted by the tech class is pretty good evidence it’s needed. “Prove that our startups won’t fuck up the city? Outrageous! The American way is to fuck up the city, grow too big to be penalised, and then buy lobbyists!” https://t.co/puTJ4HvwIb

— untitled hern account (@alexhern) October 13, 2019

San Francisco to establish “Office og Emerging Technologies”. In future you will need to pitch them before you can launch in the city or no “Notice to Proceed”. https://t.co/pIMZBZAtYE

— Matt Barrie (@matt_barrie) October 12, 2019

I can't wait to see a South Park episode lampooning this. "San Francisco Wants to Require Companies To Get Permits Before Rolling Out 'Emerging Technology'" https://t.co/YzSBrjSu7h

— Tim Hickernell (@thickernell) October 10, 2019

Aside from the hyperbole at the root of this initiative is the conflict between cityscape altering tech that deploys w/guerilla tactics & residents w/mobility & sensory handicaps. Need to get the balance right, but also try to see the city from a less privileged perspective. pic.twitter.com/qU93D8lTDe

— Ufuk Ince (@UfukInceCFA) October 12, 2019

Omg, please. Neither Air BnB not Uber have created sustainable business models, and both are absolutely wrecking smaller communities. You guys who love capitalism to a fault are very sad.

— i have been saying... (@virginiahamner) October 12, 2019

this is what happens when folks don't vote locally. Young tech workers have notoriously low turnout and tech companies are bad at local gov. relations. San Francisco represents (well) those who engage. those who engage don't like tech or metropolises

— Greg Ferenstein (@ferenstein) October 12, 2019

Genuinely can’t tell what’s real or not: “San Francisco will create an Office of Emerging Technology, where tech companies can pitch their services so The City will no longer be taken by surprise and have to scramble to address impacts of the businesses.” https://t.co/EFMeD5aV7I

— Rahul (@rkrishnakumar) October 12, 2019

To all the founders and technologists in SF, NYC would love to have you build and work here. It’s a great place to test and build ‘atom’ based startups.

We might not have the warm weather and homogeneous tech culture but it’s a more diverse, interesting and fun city to live in! https://t.co/mDpdIxdrnj

— Steve Schlafman ? (@schlaf) October 12, 2019

Imagine looking at SF housing policy and thinking “wow, this is working so well we should apply it to startups” https://t.co/YwnZeM7MF8

— josiah (@jgulden) October 12, 2019

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

"Before any new tech device is used, tested or piloted in The City, the office would coordinate the review with relevant departments and would 'issue a Notice to Proceed if the net result is for the common good'"https://t.co/3slXCgjVO5

— @at (@AndrewThappa) October 12, 2019

San Francisco has gone insane. Imagine being required to pitch your startup idea to a government agency to have it scored for public good. https://t.co/1fJFRsXkpO

— Jeff Nolan (@jeffnolan) October 12, 2019

It’s promising to see ⁦@sfgov⁩ articulate its tech values and require startups to play ball...I just wish they’d put more muscle behind it w $ and staff via ⁦@CSaid⁩ cc ⁦@jkapsis⁩ ⁦@Richard_Florida⁩ https://t.co/HHnD3RPgWu

— Molly Turner (@mollysturner) October 9, 2019

SF officials want to regulate cutting-edge tech. Would their plan stifle innovation?
"I find this scary. I believe in letting the tech flourish and only stop it when you have to," said one professor.https://t.co/dMyKJA6tcO pic.twitter.com/zxoGzM07Kz

— SF City Insider (@SFCityInsider) October 9, 2019

In San Francisco you may soon need a straight up license to innovate. This is horrifying. The public should be horrified. @AdamThierer https://t.co/gLBDHplzA9

— A lady (@Anastasia_esq) October 11, 2019

Imagine thinking Uber is a company to be proud of and saying that out loud. Yikes. https://t.co/OJKcEvoQBD

— Pete Holiday (@toomuchpete) October 13, 2019

I agree and I think that's part of the issue. Because it's investor tweets, people perceive this as privileged vs underprivileged, elite/wealthy vs everyone else, etc. But the underlying message is more about logic about how people behave vs emotions about how we wish they would.

— Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) October 12, 2019

Someone in my feed said

“I’m tired of people dunking on San Francisco” https://t.co/fW74OSL88I

— Matt Mireles (@mattmireles) October 12, 2019

An "Office of Emerging Technology" may sound pro-innovation on paper, but it seems that what SF is setting up is a system that would require innovators & entrepreneurs to constantly ask "Mother may I?" before thinking outside the box https://t.co/KjnoHeW9DY

— Jennifer Huddleston (@jrhuddles) October 9, 2019

Boys and girls...come to India. We only have Angel Tax. Atleast the govt doesn't do due diligence on us.
https://t.co/fVRcIs5xGw

— Sandeep Srinivasa (@sandeepssrin) October 12, 2019

SFMTA has an office of innovation, and soon an office of “emerging [transportation] tech.” The latter may come too late to offer future-of-transportation perspective and save SF from another disastrous binding commitment—one that will shape the city.https://t.co/lsDB0G9YG7

— Jim McPherson (@SafeSelfDrive) October 10, 2019

Some sites will ABSOLUTELY NEVER be 508 compatible! Architecture of homes, buildings, and ships won't. Clothing, utensils, and myriad other things on those sites can't be rendered, and even if they can be analogized, would be tediously expensive to do.
https://t.co/hm3N6FKrdi

— David S (@hyoondae) October 12, 2019

Uber was an anarcho-capitalist uprising against authoritarian bureaucrats who can’t provide transit, housing or electricity.

The lesson is that you can fight them and win at great personal cost

Innovation loseshttps://t.co/6qZVuCekjl

— Derek Morris ?? (@derek_j_morris) October 12, 2019

From the same people who created a housing crisis, transit crisis, office space crisis, public safety crisis, meet the newest target for SF’s incompetent board of supervisors: startups https://t.co/XHgUYHUMyA

— Evan Parker (@evanparkersf) October 12, 2019

Do you live in the city? Do you vote in local elections? Do you get your friends/investments/colleagues to vote? We keep getting luddite & anti-progressive supes like Yee because we aren’t building the political machine to put good people into office. We need help

— Brezina ? (@brezina) October 12, 2019

So many issues to tackle in SF - housing, transit, homelessness, break-ins, public defecation, syringe litter, drug violence.
Yet ? https://t.co/0AbMPPKXrm

— amit paka ☕️ (@amitpaka) October 13, 2019

In San Francisco you may soon need a straight up license to innovate. This is horrifying. The public should be horrified. @AdamThierer https://t.co/gLBDHplzA9

— A lady (@Anastasia_esq) October 11, 2019

Fed up with "ask forgiveness, not permission," SF is creating an office to regulate new commercial innovations that intersect with the public realm. Past examples: sidewalk robots, scooters, Uber https://t.co/ZW3WDM0e9z

— Carolyn Said (@CSaid) October 8, 2019

SFMTA has an office of innovation, and soon an office of “emerging [transportation] tech.” The latter may come too late to offer future-of-transportation perspective and save SF from another disastrous binding commitment—one that will shape the city.https://t.co/lsDB0G9YG7

— Jim McPherson (@SafeSelfDrive) October 10, 2019

SF officials want to regulate cutting-edge tech. Would their plan stifle innovation?

via @DominicFracassa & @csaid: https://t.co/G7XvT5BUJY

— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) October 9, 2019

My brilliant friend @mollysturner sharing her thoughts on regulating tech in cities: https://t.co/c94JnycsKf

— Andrea Funsten (@AndreaFunsten) October 9, 2019

San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Norman Yee unveiled a proposal to create an Office of Emerging Technology to help the city get ahead of the next wave of new devices and services taking off in the high-tech sphere. https://t.co/bLZQCiCtzD

— KQED (@KQED) October 11, 2019

SF to establish Office of Emerging Technology - The San Francisco Examiner https://t.co/uZCABEkRgJ #sanfrancisco #smartcities pic.twitter.com/Zhbfhckobo

— Evan Kirstel in Denver for #CommvaultGO (@evankirstel) October 13, 2019

I want to know if they'll have to present to, and get approval from the SF Office of Emerging Technologies. Maybe @Sharkyl
can find out?https://t.co/YnstpizdQP

— Michael Robertson (@mp3michael) October 14, 2019

Big Tech rigs the internet to promote regressive leftist opinions and politicians, silencing dissenters.

Regressive leftists get elected and do what regressive leftists do.

What did they think was going to happen? https://t.co/nOqFkjvoeI

— Dustin Templeton (@dtempleton_smb) October 13, 2019