{"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

Source: Uber can’t be stopped. So what happens next? | The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Popper at The Verge on what happened in New York when they tried to cap the growth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}