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I have personally witnessed (and have evidence to support) Uber being extremely heavy-handed in response to valid allegations about them. My experience was the
by pain_perdu 10y ago
I have personally witnessed (and have evidence to support) Uber being extremely heavy-handed in response to valid allegations about them. My experience was they absolutely have people standing-by to research and goto great lengths to undermine negative truths that arise about the company.
- debatem1 10y agoCan you provide your evidence? Who are the people that they have standing by? I wonder if it would be possible to convince those people to support a better cause. There's a dire need for some good investigative journalism right about now.
- pain_perdu 10y agoI actually described the issue in question on HN in the past which promptly led to Uber threatening the employee who leaked the details to me. He was so scared that he asked me to reach out to YC and have the original post deleted. I wouldn't hesitate to share the evidence with a journalist with a publication backing them though as that would be a more appropriate venue.
- debatem1 10y agoHave you reached out to anyone? https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/news-tips/ https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/news-tips/ would be my first place to go. It even specifically calls out "Here is proof that this company is conducting itself unethically" as an example, and asks for evidence corroborating the story. So if you have it, that would seem to be the place. Having said that, I was more wondering if the people doing the threatening could be turned to better use. They surely aren't in it for the warm fuzzies, and if they're good at digging perhaps they could be convinced to do it for the good guys.