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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by oculusthrift on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:00PM (#13785819)
i agree with your point about multinationals but this case is more interesting than that. Uber isn't Coca Cola. They essentially used tactics like this to go from plucky underdog to multinational.
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by quirkot on Friday March 03, 2017 @03:02PM (#13785840)
Uber was always too shady to be justifiably plucky
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by snappyTertle on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:37PM (#13786901)
Uber was justifiably shady. They had to get around outdated laws that protects an outdated medium of transportation.
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by TeMPOraL on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:17PM (#13787832)
No, they simply went around laws that governed their market in order to outcompete other providers, and they are pretty smug about it. They never discriminated between laws that are obviously obsolete and laws that are still important.
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by snappyTertle on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:28PM (#13787900)
Which laws were important?
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by TeMPOraL on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:32PM (#13787934)
Insurance laws and employee laws, for starters. And even medallion laws in some places, because they offset the costs cabs incur for being a part of city transportation infrastructure - costs like adapting cars to service elderly and disabled.
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by wfo on Saturday March 04, 2017 @01:44AM (#13789669)
There are a lot of reasons people think Uber is shady beyond just their lawbreaking.

Their CEO, their abusive and toxic mysoginist work culture, etc.

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