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I am trying to understand this as well. It seems straight up illegal

• Nextgrid 6y ago
  Unfortunately, illegal business models seem commonplace at least in the US. See the various food delivery companies committing fraud by misrepresenting themselves as the restaurants (buying domains & phone numbers and outranking the legitimate website on search engines), etc.
  • rideontime 6y ago
    And the various taxi companies ignoring regulations by calling themselves "rideshares"!
    • Nextgrid 6y ago
      That's more of a grey area - there are at least a significant chunk of people that are happy for the taxi monopoly and the medallion system to go away. But plain fraud where you steal money (or tips) or impersonate other businesses? I don't think anyone is going to be happy with that.
  • slenk 6y ago
    You bring up a good point, unfortunately.