Aside from the legal hurdles, Uber seems predicated on minimally vetting providers, mostly accomplished via local licensing verification rather than anything do

Aside from the legal hurdles, Uber seems predicated on minimally vetting providers, mostly accomplished via local licensing verification rather than anything done by Uber itself, and no vetting whatsoever of the customers. While I suppose you can argue that leaves things no worse off than the current sex work landscape, it seems like any company jumping into this isn't going to look good in the public and regulatory eye if their attitude is to just keep letting customers get diseases and providers get stalked and murdered. This is why brothels work. They can actually provide security. A phone app can't.