[RobertoG]

"20000 licenses represents a lot of votes"

A lot but surely a minority of votes yet.

If this is a so big problem for the users of those services they could vote to somebody that change the system. That's how it works, isn’t?

[walterstucco]

but they are violent. 500 hundreds of them are like having a small army of 10.000 soldiers. Most of the more active and noisy are also fascist and act the same way the mob does. I'm from Rome but also lived for a long time in Milan, and I've seen with my eyes taxi drivers crash the uber app presentation and start firing tear bombs in the crowd (there were kids it was a tech fest in a city park) or read about the physical aggressions towards uber drivers (including women, three taxi drivers one night blocked and threatened a woman driving for uber and destroyed her car). Recently there's been a taxi driver's strike and those that were against the strike said they disagreed but were not going to work as well because of the threats they received. this is the real situation: mob and fascists together. uber model. sucks, gig economy sucks, but Italian taxi drivers suck a lot more.

[thevalermor]

This is how it would work in any other country maybe. 20000 licenses means a lot more than 20000 votes. And this is only one of the many lobbies.