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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by dcolkitt on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:14PM (#25435939)
This just isn’t consistent with the empirical evidence whatsoever. An overwhelming amount of economic analysis shows that the burden of regulation disproportionately falls on small business.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that there aren’t other justifications for any given regulation. But ain’t no small business owner or entrepreneur in history ever said “Boy! All these regulations sure are making my life easy”

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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by tstrimple on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:33PM (#25436176)
Yeah, we never see examples of small teams disrupting large markets with entrenched competitors. I'm afraid with taxi medallion regulations, we'll never see any competition in that space.
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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by zdragnar on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:51PM (#25436410)
They wouldn't have, had they actually obeyed the same laws and regulations.

Instead, they offered a nearly identical service (arranged via app rather than hailing streetside) and skirted around all of the regulations that had kept the incumbents entrenched for so long.

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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by 8note on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:50PM (#25437598)
Yes, and? This agrees with the statement that small companies are fluid and can find ways to work with regulations. Coming up with ways to avoid is that.
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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by zdragnar on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:33PM (#25437947)
I do not believe that violating the spirit, if not the letter, of laws and regulations is a good strategy for enabling small teams to disrupt large incumbents.

If we want a healthy market where small and large players alike can thrive, enabling regulatory capture and expecting small players to ignore regulations as long as they can is just bad policy.

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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by dkdk8283 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:40AM (#25442346)
In every business I’ve been in success can be traced back to the wilingness to something grey. If you can find a loophole, profit.
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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by cycomanic on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:04AM (#25440163)
The irony in all of this is that we somehow consider the uber of the world small businesses compared to taxi companies.
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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by dcolkitt on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:50PM (#25436394)
I don't understand the point you're making. Are you arguing that tax medallion regulations helped ride share companies enter the market?
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Re:Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding E... by alisonkisk on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:27PM (#25437397)
Parent was attempting sarcasm, which makes their writing essentially meaningless because the reader has to gursst if they meant what they wrote or the opposite.
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