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This probably isn't the sort of behavior you expected when you asked for examples but: Uber and Lyft were required by a municipal ordinance of Austin to finger
by wavefunction 9y ago
This probably isn't the sort of behavior you expected when you asked for examples but:
Uber and Lyft were required by a municipal ordinance of Austin to finger-print their drivers. They both objected to this regulation and so they got some local folks to promote a ballot issue that intended to free them from the regulation.
There were a lot of questionable things that happened along with this ballot measure like shady local "advocacy groups" and attempts to recall city council members who appeared to be critical of Uber, but my main issue was that they sent me literally 14 of the same exact mailer addressed to me in . This was in addition to their other mailers, which were also duplicated obscenely. Anyways, the ballot measure failed and Uber and Lyft decamped, but only after claiming they were "forced out of Austin."
They wasted $10,000,000 on all this, which could have finger-printed 200,000 drivers.
They seem like wasteful idiots who want to interfere with society to their own benefit. And that's not even me talking about their flouting of 'taxi regulations.'