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Entire Country Of Italy Bans Uber
« on: April 11, 2017, 11:19:43 am »
No longer are mere cities banning Uber (hi Austin!), now the entire country of Italy has banned the ride-sharing app following a court ruling that it constituted unfair competition to the country’s existing taxi associations.

The basic point of the case is that Italy’s existing major taxi associations filed a suit saying that Uber constituted unfair competition and a Rome court ruled in their favor, as Reuters matter-of-factly reports. Uber now can’t use its Black, Lux, Suv, X , XL, Select and Van services, nor can it even advertise in Italy.

The ruling was issued on Friday and the judge gave Uber 10 days to comply, facing a 10,000 Euro fine per day following, as reported by La Repubblica.

More: http://jalopnik.com/entire-country-of-italy-bans-uber-1794172121
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Re: Entire Country Of Italy Bans Uber
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2017, 11:24:49 am »
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Can't leave it up to the consumer I guess?
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Re: Entire Country Of Italy Bans Uber
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2017, 11:27:44 am »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on April 11, 2017, 11:24:49 am
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Can't leave it up to the consumer I guess?

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Re: Entire Country Of Italy Bans Uber
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2017, 11:41:14 am »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on April 11, 2017, 11:24:49 am
:shrug:

Can't leave it up to the consumer I guess?

Not the Italian way of doing things. They're pretty protectionist - before joining the EU, for example, large supermarket chains were limted by law to no more than 30 stores in the nation to protect the small shopkeepers. It got upped to 50 or so when they joined the EU.
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Re: Entire Country Of Italy Bans Uber
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2017, 02:01:06 pm »
Quote from: EC on April 11, 2017, 11:41:14 am
Not the Italian way of doing things. They're pretty protectionist - before joining the EU, for example, large supermarket chains were limted by law to no more than 30 stores in the nation to protect the small shopkeepers. It got upped to 50 or so when they joined the EU.

It just hurts the Italian people. Not hugely but...
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Re: Entire Country Of Italy Bans Uber
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2017, 02:11:16 pm »
It's probably because Uber operators refuse to drive up on the sidewalks the way taxis do in Rome.
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Re: Entire Country Of Italy Bans Uber
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2017, 02:14:49 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on April 11, 2017, 02:11:16 pm
It's probably because Uber operators refuse to drive up on the sidewalks the way taxis do in Rome.

My family went to Rome and got a Russian taxi driver who totally ripped us off by going an unnecessarily long route.
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Re: Entire Country Of Italy Bans Uber
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2017, 02:24:48 pm »
Italy has more shit to worry about than Uber. The country is going to split apart because northern Italy is tired of carrying the lazy southerners. If Padania goes, the country will be finished.

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21651261-north-limps-ahead-south-swoons-tale-two-economies
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