What really happens here is foreign companies monopolizing local black/grey markets. Unlicensed taxis or rental properties were a thing before the internet. Jus

What really happens here is foreign companies monopolizing local black/grey markets. Unlicensed taxis or rental properties were a thing before the internet. Just that municipalities know how to deal with them; they went in stupor when global billion dollar companies started doing that too, giving it a whiff of legality but not really. Governments are notoriously slow to react to changes in ecosystem, and in this case it's other businesses pushing back, in a way that should make any free market advocate proud.