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If what Uber is doing is illegal, why are they allowed to continue operating?

• grepthisab 8y ago
  Truly an awful line of reasoning. To add a little substance to that comment per HN guidelines: they could be being investigated now, the gov may not have caught up with their illegality yet, etc. etc. etc.
  • trumped 8y ago
    right, and the comment that I was replying to was just assuming that it was illegal even if they haven't been convicted... I know nobody likes Uber here, including me, but it's a bit of a witch hunt
• kinsomo 8y ago
  > If what Uber is doing is illegal, why are they allowed to continue operating? Because the set of things that are wrong is a subset of the things that are illegal. Uber also has a documented history of doing actual illegal things. It even went so far as to build technology specifically to avoid law enforcement authorities: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...