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Re:Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still opera... by ekianjo on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:32AM (#21628953)
That's not the job of the government to regulate margins of businesses. If you go by that way, then you might as well regulate every margin of every app store?
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Re:Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still opera... by criddell on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:41AM (#21629033)
At least in the US, they do it all the time. The job of the government is mostly to do what we tell it to do because the government is just people from the community.
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Re:Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still opera... by lmm on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:55PM (#21632102)
The government should (and does) regulate the margins of natural monopolies like utilities where a free market can't operate effectively.
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Re:Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still opera... by cartoonworld on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:46AM (#21629099)
That is the governments job.

They aren't regulating an app on the store, they would be in this hypothetical scenario regulating the labor practices of a multinational corporation, which is for sure the job of any government.

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Re:Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still opera... by Endy on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:38AM (#21629014)
A great idea.
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Re:Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still opera... by buboard on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:58AM (#21629265)
Thats what taxation does anyway
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