{"id":4002,"date":"2015-07-28T08:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2015-07-28T08:29:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:29:51","slug":"4002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/4002\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollies that try to stop Uber have a bad time"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ben Popper at The Verge on what happened in New York when they tried to cap the growth of Uber:<\/p>\n
In the week leading up to the scuttled vote, Uber rolled out a tidal wave of attack ads, robocalls, influential allies, and an advanced get-out-the-vote campaign among its users. And in hundreds of cities, states, and countries around the globe, it’s waging a similar campaign, with astonishing success. At this point it\u2019s worth asking: if Uber can’t be stopped, what does the future look like?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Aussie politicians are dancing around this issue of Uber’s legality at both a federal and state level. I wonder what happens when someone tries to make a genuine campaign issue of stopping Uber?<\/p>\n
My guess: they’re gonna get rolled.<\/p>\n