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		tbrownaw 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are we the baddies? > I’m not trying to excuse any predatory commercial practices directed at drivers or passengers, which are serious problems deserving of more strict regulation, but I absolutely do not want to go back to the old way. So which of the laws that uber broke to get big are what prevented these new issues, and which are what made the old way bad?

Symbiote 8 months ago [–]

In several European countries they weren't doing the criminal record checks that taxi companies are required to do.

I think that's what got them banned in London at some point.

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