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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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