[whimsicalism]

uber: mostly not technically because the key thing is that they are not soliciting rides from the street, was my understanding.

airbnb had a much more legally tenuous start

[failuser]

Uber even had a whole program to thwart law enforcement attempts to investigate them called “greyball”. They knew what they are doing. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...