Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by mindcrime on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:15PM
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Also, corporations - as a rule - don't have huge armies made up of many people with guns, tanks, jet fighters, nuclear bombs, etc., which they can use to impose their will on you.
It's a lot easier to divest yourself of a bad relationship with a company, than a nation-state.
(And no, "move" isn't a reasonable response to this, so don't waste your digital breath with any Somalia references).
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by devdas on Sunday March 05, 2017 @06:08PM
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They were divested of this for good reasons.
http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/30739/is-there-a-... is a good starting point
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by st3v3r on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:11PM
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Yeah, no. Move is about as reasonable as any other libertarian nonsense.
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by rpdillon on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:43PM
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It seems reasonable to say switching cost is higher when it comes to citizenship than it is with which company you choose to get a taxi from.
You don't have a say in government like you do with a private company. If I don't like the government, I have to hope that millions of other people agree with me. If I don't like a company, I alone can choose not to associate with it. My relationship with or without Uber is entirely up to me. I'm forced to endure the government whether I like it or not -- I could petition and protest until I'm blue and it won't make a difference to my life unless millions agree. With Uber, etc. I can simply stop buying their product and poof! They're out of my life.