Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut...
by dangero on Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:00PM
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"right" is a moral judgement. It depends on whether you see this as civil disobedience. It may be "right" and also illegal at the same time.
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Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut...
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday May 04, 2017 @09:09PM
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If you look at civil disobedience as practiced by Martin Luther King, Jr and Gandhi, it was to highlight injustice by disobeying the law in question, and then accepting the full consequences of breaking the law. Breaking a law you dont like, doing shady things to avoid getting caught, and raising billions in investments is not at like civil disobedience and only cheapens the real civil disobedience that addressed great injustice at great personal cost to the people involved.
Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut...
by sqeaky on Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:06PM
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"Civil disobedience" is a term and group of actions used when fighting for racial equality during the civil rights movement. Equating that with anything uber, a multibillion international company, does is kind of gross.
Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut...
by sfilargi on Thursday May 04, 2017 @09:35PM
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I may be wrong but I don't think you can label something as "civil disobedience" when it is done by a corporation or when it is done for profit.
Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut...
by wavefunction on Thursday May 04, 2017 @10:16PM
(#14270652)
I believe you to be correct in your understanding of what constitutes civil disobedience.
Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut...
by Dangeranger on Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:12PM
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The law makes it pretty clear whether a business has the "right" to interfere with a criminal investigation.
Disagreeing with a law doesn't give you the "right" to not follow the law.
Re:Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade aut...
by wavefunction on Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:21PM
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Yeah but Uber's behavior is definitely wrong.