>Imagine if humans weren't born with biological mouths, instead synthetic mouths were invented and sold by a company, allowing people to speak. We wouldn't accept the company installing a blacklist of words or phrases to stop people from saying them.
But we already have that in European countries. Why do we accept this from the government instead?
That's what the ircv3 guys did. I think it's a cancerous attitude: you get your protocol implemented regardless of whether it's good or not, since most managers of open source software can't say no to free code
>After BuzzFeed News began asking questions and Uber learned about the police investigation, that changed. The driver is now off the platform and will remain off unless authorities determine the matter should be dropped, a spokesperson for the ridesharing app said.
So the guy loses his income until the police determines if he's actually guilty or not. Guilty until proven otherwise. Oookay.