Uber Can’t Force Arbitration Over Pricing Antitrust Claim

Re:Uber Can’t Force Arbitration Over Pricing Antitrust Claim by steveeq1 on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:02PM (#12193963)

I don't get it, isn't the arbitrator supposed to be an unbiased third party? Whether or not he's chosen by the company should be irrelevant.

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Re:Uber Can’t Force Arbitration Over Pricing Antitrust Claim by sitharus on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:17PM (#12194041)

Yes, but for a someone to be truely unbiased they need to be completely independent. If there's any sort of relationship to either party they will be biased somehow.

A good approach would be the random selection of a few members of the general populace, or the use of a third party skilled in legal matters with payment guaranteed no matter what the verdict.

It's like we've seen this problem before

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Re:Uber Can’t Force Arbitration Over Pricing Antitrust Claim by eschutte2 on Saturday July 30, 2016 @05:04PM (#12194694)

Do you think the arbitrator would like to be chosen by the company again in future?

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Re:Uber Can’t Force Arbitration Over Pricing Antitrust Claim by zyxley on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:35PM (#12194352)

> Whether or not he's chosen by the company should be irrelevant.

This only holds if the people at that company are morally-perfect robots who never make choices subtly biased in their own favor.

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Re:Uber Can’t Force Arbitration Over Pricing Antitrust Claim by serge2k on Saturday July 30, 2016 @05:00PM (#12194676)

In a perfect world it wouldn't matter, because the arbiter would be neutral.

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Re:Uber Can’t Force Arbitration Over Pricing Antitrust Claim by zyxley on Sunday July 31, 2016 @11:23PM (#12200034)

"A perfect world" is irrelevant.

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