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Taxi Apps Accused of Facilitating Sexual Harassment In Brazil
New submitter André Costa writes The companies responsible for taxi apps Easy Taxi and 99Taxis are being accused of making it too easy for taxi drivers to harass female customers (some news reports — in Portuguese — can be found here, here and here). These apps currently disclose informations such as the client's name, cell phone and address to the driver. One customer that started being harassed through offensive text messages after a ride started an online petition demanding that the companies take effective measures to protect female customers. The petition already collected more than 27,000 signatures, and both Easy Taxi and 99Taxis already announced that they will implement features that will protect clients' privacy. At first, users will be allowed to choose if they want their phone numbers to be disclosed. Within a couple of months, both companies said they will provide VOIP calls, which will eliminate the need to exchange phone numbers.
I'm fucking tired of this shit. Dudes deal with seedy bullshit all the time but the ladies want to be in little isolated soap bubbles.
Just enough. Another idea might be requiring that women passengers use female taxi drivers. Will that mean paying significantly more for a taxi? I can't control the market value. Maybe it will be an empowering experience and the female drivers will get a good financial opportunity. Who knows.
But really, this whole ongoing whine has become tiresome. If you want to use a normal yellow cab, then use one of those. If you want to use the the rape mobiles which is apparently character assassination being tried against Uber etc... then you know what you were getting in for.
Seriously done with it. No woman HAS to use an Uber cab. They can use a yellow cab or whatever was there before Uber. Use that, climb into the back of some grimy cab that smells like stale cigarette smoke driven in all likelihood by some hairy guy that is OF COURSE never going to rape you or make inappropriate comments. He isn't working for Uber, so he's safe.
And then enjoy your rape free environment. But if you use the Uber cab... I don't want to hear about it. I'm tapped out of care.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
This isn't about big girl panties or sucking it. It's about a transaction and the details of which being used for nonprofessional uses.
It's like you getting a phone and then all the sudden getting obscene and harassing phone calls from the phone company itself and it's employees stalking you. Anyone should enjoy the right to not be pestered by indecent calls or texts just because they did business with someone.