As a hilly, historical, picturesque city on the coast, San Francisco used to be tourist hot-spot and convention destination. But with social justice turning San Francisco into a crime and feces ridden hellhole, even local tech giants have decided it’s time to hold their conferences elsewhere.
First Red Hat and Meta (AKA Facebook) have cancelled San Francisco conventions.
Two major tech companies decided to cancel their San Francisco Moscone Center conferences. Software company Red Hat and Bay Area’s Meta are no longer coming to the city in 2024.
“It’s not something we are going to turn around quickly. There are certainly companies, organizations that are deciding not to hold their events in San Francisco. We will probably see more of that,” said Rufus Jeffris, Bay Area Council spokesperson.
A financial hit that is no surprise for the San Francisco Travel Association. According to their projections:
“2024 continues to be a particularly challenging year for conventions in San Francisco. Although 2023 is a robust convention year, 2024 is estimated to actualize about 60% of the average,” said Jeffris.
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We contacted Meta and Red Hat and have not gotten a response. Yet, the Bay Area Council says safety challenges don’t help San Francisco.
“Some of the issues in San Francisco is working hard to address. Obviously some issues of safety or cleanliness in the streets. Social problems that we are seeing on the streets are frankly a result of not only the pandemic and the after effects of that but many decades of failed policies,” said Jeffris.
You don’t say. Reminder: The last Republican mayor of San Francisco left office in 1964. Since then an unending stream of Democrats like Dianne Feinstein, Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom have lead the city.
Now Google has joined Red Hat and Meta in pulling their conference out of the city.
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.
Salesforce may be next: “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.”
Social Justice Warriors seem less concerned about injecting money into the city than into their own bank accounts, or about enabling the city’s growing population of mentally ill transients to continue injecting drugs into their veins. San Francisco will continue to wither and die as long as they’re in charge.
Tags: California, Democrats, Google, Marc Benioff, Red Hat, Salesforce, San Francisco, Social Justice Warriors
SWJs are concerned only about their own feels. Specifically, they want to declare themselves virtuous, without actually *being* virtuous (that takes work and self-restraint after all).
They never consider the real-world consequences of their virtue-signaling (see: Martha’s Vineyard vs. Illegal Aliens).
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Gooderer and harderer.
The real wonder is, that any were still even considering San Francisco. This didn’t just start yesterday; it’s been years in the making.
Kate Steinle died in 2015. If you had half a brain, and any sort of survival instinct, that was when you should have started paying attention.
I suspect the big cyber-security conference (RSA) will also consider moving. I know there was considerable unhappiness at the (lack of) personal security situation around the Moscone center this year