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title: "I think Greyball is great--government employees enforcing immoral…"
date: 2017-03-03
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships shared a link.
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# I think Greyball is great--government employees enforcing immoral…

*March 3, 2017 · Facebook*

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[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html?smid=tw-share&\_r=2](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2){target="_blank"}
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I think Greyball is great\--government employees enforcing immoral laws \_should\_ be blackballed.\
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Also, can you imagine the outcry from the left if Uber drivers were attacking taxi drivers with baseball bats? Yet how many articles do you see from them criticizing the taxi cartels?\
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\"Uber employees said the practices and tools were born in part out of safety measures meant to protect drivers in some countries. In France, India and Kenya, for instance, taxi companies and workers targeted and attacked new Uber drivers.\
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"They're beating the cars with metal bats," the singer Courtney Love posted on Twitter from an Uber car in Paris at a time of clashes between the company and taxi drivers in 2015. Ms. Love said that protesters had ambushed her Uber ride and had held her driver hostage. "This is France? I'm safer in Baghdad."\
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html){target="_blank"}
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