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Companies like Uber who dance with the law, have their executives arrested abroad like in France or Canada, or implement schemes to evade local officials buildi
by throw_m239339 6y ago
Companies like Uber who dance with the law, have their executives arrested abroad like in France or Canada, or implement schemes to evade local officials building cases against them, must have a huge legal (and costly) department.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-france-leaders-arrested-for-running-illegal-taxi-company/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-france-leaders-arrest...
If I attempted to do that same in my home country without a huge VC backing thus very good lawyers, I'd be shut down in no time and sent to jail.
- fock 6y agoYeah and it even gets better that they now have a direct connection to the US (Vice) President. Just, what could go wrong with that and mob-like anticompetitive behavior...