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> Simplifying it even more: If you had people on the street, looking for cars with a Lyft sticker and reporting back every one you see - would you say that is i
by geocar 10y ago
> Simplifying it even more: If you had people on the street, looking for cars with a Lyft sticker and reporting back every one you see - would you say that is illegal?
Yes, because trying to "hack" the legal system by finding things that you can argue are "technically legal" is not something that impresses me.
I get that beating someone up and throwing a paying customer off a plane, or using a firehose on civil rights marchers, is "legal" if some judge can be persuaded ($$$) to agree, but I'm not going to play that game: I don't want to live someplace where we do what is legal and don't do what is illegal; I want my neighbors to know right from wrong.
A Reasonable Person would think that Uber was doing this to wrong Lyft and indeed it turns out, was doing this to wrong Lyft.
- viraptor 10y agoDon't get me wrong. I think they're total assholes and shouldn't be doing this even if it is legal. But at the same time I'm interested in what would happen in case of an actual lawsuit. These don't care what impresses us :-( Also, discussing what changes on Lyft's side would make it definitely illegal is interesting if you ever have some personal data in your own service.
- morganvachon 10y agoThe thing is, it would likely be a civil tort case, not necessarily a criminal case. An action can be legal from a criminal statute point of view, and yet still open the company up to a lawsuit in civil court where the other party can try to prove they were harmed.