Re:How low does Uber have to go before we stop using it?
by throwaway35775 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @03:12PM
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I don't think the company makes any secret of operating in any city. As far as I know they are quite public and let elected officials know they are going to operate in their city. This means that the city can quite trivially subpoena the company once it starts operating. The drivers are just trying to earn a living. So basically the company was practicing civil disobedience, but was kind enough not to try and keep individual drivers just trying to make a living out of it.
If Uber is banned in a city, that means it's against the law. Dodging cops while you're doing something against the law... yeah, that's wrong. It's wrong to be doing the thing that against the law, and you're proving that you know it by dodging the cops.
But you may argue that the Uber service is fine; the law itself is wrong. And that's a reasonable argument. (Not necessarily right, but at least reasonable.) But the correct way to respond is with civil disobedience - deliberately disobey the law, and accept the consequences, trying to win either in court of law or in the court of public opinion. You can't do that if you dodge the consequences.
Don't dodge bad laws. Either obey them (even while you're working to change them), or publicly disobey them. Dodging the cops is not the answer.