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it carried over to service platforms No, it never did, Uber just made that up. The whole basis of this article is plain false, no other words for it. (Dito Am
by revelation 10y ago
it carried over to service platforms
No, it never did, Uber just made that up. The whole basis of this article is plain false, no other words for it.
(Dito Amazon, who have brazenly been selling and even shipping electronic waste that passes no basic safety standards. No uttering of "marketplace seller" changes the legal reality.)
- codyps 10y agoA bit clearer with the full quote: > Although limiting liability online was intended to protect sites hosting digital content, it carried over to service platforms
- breischl 10y agoThe intent of TFA is clearer, but it's still false. AirBnB and Uber didn't get some legal limitation of liability, they just started doing something new and asserted that they weren't liable. Turns out some jurisdictions agree, and others don't. But nobody thought that Common Carrier or the CDA exemptions applied to cars or apartments.
- Wilya 10y agoYeah. Comparing the legal issues that Facebook faces to the legal issues that Uber faces is complete nonsense.
- zerocrates 10y agoThe pivot to Airbnb and Uber is a strange one, that's for sure. You can draw them all in as part of a more general narrative of technology companies trying to avoid regulations and liabilities faced by their legacy competition, but the article really doesn't do enough to draw any distinction or justify the mention of these companies.