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Re:Reasons not to use Uber by smsm42 on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:06PM (#12939560)
It doesn't serve residents. It serves hotel lobby. They don't even hide it too much:

http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/31/hotel-workers-union-gave-1...

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/04/hotel-exec-celebrates-new-...

It's not about safety or interests of anybody else, it's about who the money goes to.

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Re:Reasons not to use Uber by geofft on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:09PM (#12939580)
Why are these mutually exclusive?

(Can we use Airbnb celebrating the other side as evidence that Airbnb's preferred laws don't serve visitors, they serve the VC lobby?)

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Re:Reasons not to use Uber by smsm42 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:50PM (#12962571)
If aribnb reps would say something like "we're glad this law got passed, now we can charge more and not be afraid of competition" then yes. But I don't remember Airbnb sponsoring any exclusionary laws, it's the hotel lobby that does. And they don't even bother to put a transparent screen of saying "great day for safety!", they just plain go out and say "great day for us charging more!".
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