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Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) by verve_rat on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @06:50PM (#30621529)
That is one of the things that passes me off about all this. The enforcement agency did go after a bunch of drivers that were driving passengers for money without a "P" licence. Now, IIRC, Uber does require drivers to have a "P" licence.

But that same agency didn't do shit to Uber for operation of a taxi service without meeting the requirements.

Going after the little people is easy, but give up when the target has a bunch of VC money and lawyers.

We have a similar problem with our courier drivers. Everyone is "totally not an employee, they run their own independent business".

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Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) by FDSGSG on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:18AM (#30627850)
There should be no need to go after Uber, they probably shouldn't have to be the ones enforcing this. Uber can't verify if the driving license you've provided them is fake or not, at least the cops can do that.

Why should this enforcement be outsourced to Uber?

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