Take this source from 2014 as you decide, but there have been mainstream news articles in the past stating contrary:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-re...

You and others missed parent's dry humor.

FTA: > it's not just a rogue employee or two

Sarcasm and dry humor do not befit the internet

Thank you, inetknight, brave Knight of the Internet.

guelo's point is that Uber's actions were institutional, and the organization didn't even make appearances to do anything about it

Yeah, but this could break some restaraunts. OpenTable should be compensating those restaraunts affected, at the very least. And this is different in that it didn’t just affect OpenTable’s rivals, affected the third party business directly.

If it was not sanctioned by OpenTable, why should they compensate? If a government employee does this, should the government compensate?

It was not sanctioned by them, but they're still responsible for the actions of their employee.

What if it was a customer trolling a restaurant they didn’t like?

Do you routinely interview, hire, and give responsibility to your customers?

Then the employer doesn't compensate in this case.

I mean, Chicago pays something like 100 million dollars a year in police misconduct settlements...

You mean such as in the case of e.g. police brutality or mishandled prosecution? The government is indeed on the hook. It is OpenTable's responsibility to ensure that it hires ethical people and that it encourages them to behave ethically and verifies they are doing so. Anything else would be insanity.

Yes, the government pays out settlements due to employee misconduct too.