[RobertoG]

"Do you think Italy's citizens are actually in favor of in maintaining the taxi monopoly?"

I have not idea. I suppose we should ask them, using the democratic established channels. Meanwhile, Uber should follow the law.

[JoeAltmaier]

At some point, its moot. Uber is an app. Is the app banned? How? Some national firewall?

This brave new world and such marvels in it. Reminds me of when a nation (Thailand?) 'banned' bitcoin. What on earth could that even mean?

[maxerickson]

In the case of a service app, one thing a country can do is make it hard to bank. Will people drive for Uber without getting paid? Probably not.

Same with bitcoin actually. A pretty big majority of people aren't going to use it if it is cut off from most of their local economy.

[pmontra]

Uber is a company and it moves money. I bet the app still works in Italy. Uber could block it or not. What it should not do is keep operating in Italy: not routing requests to drivers is the first important step.