Re:San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber...
by gojomo on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:04PM
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If companies broke specific laws, convict them in a court of law, and apply statutory penalties or reasonably-computed damages.
This sort of retaliatory "shit list", constructed without due process, from which a company might only be able to extricate themselves by "kissing the ring" of local politicos/bureaucrats, is a recipe for inefficiency and corruption.
I also don't think the "litter" charge against the initial scooter deployments is correct, anyway, for reasons I outlined in a prior thread:
This sort of retaliatory "shit list", constructed without due process, from which a company might only be able to extricate themselves by "kissing the ring" of local politicos/bureaucrats, is a recipe for inefficiency and corruption.
I also don't think the "litter" charge against the initial scooter deployments is correct, anyway, for reasons I outlined in a prior thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17268697