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Let's be clear here. The laws Uber violated here were bad laws. They were the result of a semi-corrupt relationship between city governments and taxi cab companies. Uber has been the prime mover in killing these laws. That's a good thing.


Laws about accessibility and safety are bad laws?


Portland trying to prevent Uber from operating there had nothing to do with accessibility or safety.


Some city governments and some taxi cab companies.

It bugs me that people talk like there's some kind of global Big Taxi monopoly that Uber is heroically disrupting. That's drinking the Kool-Aid.




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