Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com)

Ride-sharers have been using Uber and Lyft "carpool" apps to meet dates -- and now Uber's trying to stop it. An anonymous reader quotes SFGate: This week Uber updated their community guidelines to discourage passengers from using the ride-sharing app as a hook-up opportunity. Some Uber and Lyft riders have been using the car-pooling option as a way to meet or hook up with others. But Uber is not pleased and has advised users to not flirt or touch passengers. "It's OK to chat with other people in the car. But please don't comment on someone's appearance or ask whether they are single," Uber's guidelines state.
Their new policy now specifically states that "Uber has a no sex rule. That's no sexual conduct between drivers and riders, no matter what."

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Yeah, Europe's got stronger worker protections

[rsilvergun]

but don't think they're working class hasn't noticed. This isn't going to sound pleasant, but I don't know a 'nice' way to put this. Muslim immigrants in Europe aren't assimilating. That's causing huge problems because they're a ready made target for their right wing. Right wing's the world over use non-assimilating immigrants to drive their agendas. They can point to them as the cause of lower wages (and it doesn't help that for a lot of blue collar folks they're right) while playing on people's general fear and dislike of anything not like them.

It hasn't taken too much hold in Germany because they're deathly afraid of their right wing (e.g. neo-Nazis, real ones) but in France it's become a huge issue. Their mega corps are using it to get in power and strip those same workers of their protections. Just like Donald Trump did with the Mexican immigrants.