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Matthew
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That’s just it - they weren’t. It was regulatory BS that is made to ensure that taxi services maintain a monopoly, which hurts consumers. Taxi cabs and their unions/reps hold such tight control and they grease the palms of cities to maintain it. It’s incredibly a time-consumer. If I want to pay someone to drive me

I’ll give Uber one thing on this. They sure knew how to run what some people might call a counter intelligence program on this matter. Checking social profiles, credit card checks, documenting and reacting to strange app patterns, figuring out burner phones were in use and figuring out which ones the officials were

I see this as healthy Civil Disobedience. Franky, it isn’t the business of the city of Portland to interfere in the private consensual interactions of private citizens. If I want to arrange to give someone a ride in exchange for money, that is between me and them.

City officials and regulatory agents aren’t a protected class. Uber is free to discriminate against them all they want.