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Saturday, 11 June 2016
quote [ The suit alleges that "Uber has a simple but illegal business plan: to fix prices among competitors and take a cut of the profits." Specifically, the lawsuit cites violations of the Sherman Act, an 1890 law that encourages competition.
US District Judge Jed Rakoff is also trying to figure out whether Uber covered up using a private investigator in order to gather more information about Meyer and his lawyer after they filed the case. ] Why aren't we cutting Uber more slack? After all, they're targeting taxi companies, which are (as I've heard) pretty much corruption personified.
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rylex said @ 8:39pm GMT on 11th Jun
[Score:1 Funny]
You tell the angels in heaven you never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the company hired to drive you.
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Bruceski said @ 7:57pm GMT on 11th Jun
Because taxi companies may or may not be corrupt, but there's a point of liability there that Uber is trying its damnedest to avoid.
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HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 8:00pm GMT on 11th Jun
Please note, my commentary was more of a poke at an attitude expressed in the previous article about Uber's "business practices."
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sanepride said @ 9:17pm GMT on 11th Jun
Perhaps you're not-so-subtly poking at a comment I made in a previous post about Uber. I'm not defending their business practices so much as their business model. The service itself meets an obvious demand and creates a challenge to traditional taxi services to update, adapt, and improve. That being said, Uber should absolutely be held accountable for unfair treatment and compensation of their drivers, liability, and obviously corrupt business practices.
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HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 4:05pm GMT on 12th Jun
You're getting rather close to "at least they made the trains run on time" territory.
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sanepride said @ 4:53pm GMT on 12th Jun
Maybe if we were talking about a political entity. But we're in fact talking about a business - one which consumers are free to use or not. And sure, in making that decision consumers should ideally be equipped with all the facts regarding their business practices. But, like it or not, Uber's success is due primarily to offering a service that there is obviously a great demand for.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 10:25pm GMT on 11th Jun
I understood that reference.
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snagUber said @ 11:24pm GMT on 11th Jun
my username is not related, I repeat: not related, in any way to Uber©
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