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> The standoff reflects larger tensions in France over how to regulate fast-moving technology and stay globally competitive while ensuring labour protections.
by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> The standoff reflects larger tensions in France over how to regulate fast-moving technology and stay globally competitive while ensuring labour protections.
This kind of biased journalism just pisses me off. Uber has nothing to do with "fast-moving technology". They could have done this service with on old fashioned phone dispatch in the 50s and it would still be the same illegal operation.
Sure, they've added some bells and whistle, but that merely serves to disguise what it really is: offering a cheaper service by breaking multiple laws.
Uber is about breaking the law, not about technology, and I'm glad they finally get treated as the criminals they are.
- andrewtbham 11y agoUber uses machine learning to route drivers, not dispatchers.
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- dylanjermiah 11y agoI think the 2 million-ish rides per day is evidence that the laws are backwards and needed to be broken. They were anti-consumer and only served to protect the taxi cartel.
- kristofferR 11y agoYeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvri8hpMViM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvri8hpMViM
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- hyperion2010 11y agoThey pay the fines and the fines are cheaper than complying with laws designed to protect monopolistic interests. You can call it illegal, but when the economics works out such that the fines for something illegal are less than the competing regulated service something needs to change.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoSomething like "start arresting executives"?