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by viola11 4003 days ago
"Instead, as citizens, we should look at the regulations we have and ask if they still serve to protect people as they once did, or if they now exist to protect political and business interests."

Those are grand words for defending a taxi company that uses an app with driver + passenger ratings as basis for arguing that it is not a taxi company and that it shouldn't need to employ actual drivers.

Are you sure you didn't think about copyright law or investor state settlements laws when you wrote your comment?

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My comment was specifically a criticism of people making legal arguments in these forums. I'm not going to go ahead without a law degree, knowledge of Parisian taxi law, and the few snippets of legal arguments I read in articles, and start debating its legal standing and whether or not it's technically a "taxi" company.