Court Orders UberPop Use To Be Banned In All of Italy

An anonymous reader writes: A judicial court in Italy has ordered the UberPop app to cease offering its services [original source, in Italian], as it constitutes "unfair competition" again the taxi sector (taxi licenses in Italy are numbered, each can cost more than $100k to obtain). This sentence should be valid at the national level and comes after an injunction from taxi drivers in Milan, where a Universal Exhibition is incidentally bringing in thousands visitors from all over the world on a daily basis. Sources mention a judicial request to "block" the app, though no one is sure how this sentence has to be enforced and what the fines would be in case of violations.

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Re:Well there's the problem...

[NostalgiaForInfinity]

.If licenses weren't numbered, the proliferation of taxis would render city streets unnavigable.

And lion and sheep would lie down together and it would rain frogs. You're the economic equivalent of a young earth creationist and flat earther in one, except unlike you, they aren't harming anyone.

Fuck off, slaver.

Re:Well there's the problem...

[gstoddart]

But where regulation is not being updated to allow new mobile phone app services which are good for passengers, drivers and even other road users, then clearly there is a legislation problem.

Do you know how stupid that sounds?

"I'm OK with taxi regulation as long as they drop them for Uber".

Look, Uber can play the victim card here all they want.

This isn't a legislation problem. This is a problem of the world not suddenly bowing to the will of a fucking tech company who thinks a mobile phone app is magic and that laws should be changed to accommodate them.

And civil disobedience is a legitimate way to highlight bad law.

And impounding Uber drivers' cars and fining them is a legitimate way to say "we don't give a fuck that you think the law shouldn't apply to you.

Uber is a greedy technology company, who is trying to control the spin of "boo hoo, we're downtrodden" to prop up their business model which amounts do "an app for dispatching illegal cabs and pretending laws don't apply to us because we stepped in unicorn poop and are now magical".