My take on this- Breitbart, as well as other news sites, have been reporting about Uber drivers’ criminal activity, the infighting, and firings inside Uber. And I’m pretty sure that because Breitbart is pro-Trump, Uber is suffering butthurt upon butthurt.
Maybe Uber should handle its own personnel business and not worry about Breitbart?
Breitbart: Ride-sharing company Uber has demanded that their advertisements be removed from Breitbart News claiming that they want “nothing to do with” the website.
Uber demanded that any advertisements for their app be removed from Breitbart News earlier this year. However, Uber is now claiming that the advertising agency used to publish their ads on the internet continued to publish Uber ads on Breitbart. Uber filed a lawsuit against the advertising agency Fetch in a California court on Monday for failing to remove the advertisements from Breitbart.
An Uber spokesperson claimed, “Fetch was running a wild west of online advertising fraud, allowing Uber ads on websites we wanted nothing to do with.” It seems that Uber is so determined to remove their advertisements from Breitbart that they do not want readers of one of the most popular websites on the Internet as customers.
Ironically, Uber themselves have been the subject of a number of lawsuits, including multiple sexual harassment lawsuits and an investigation that saw as many as 20 Uber employees fired from the company and another 31 placed in counseling.
Shortly after this, Uber’s then-President of Business in the Asia Pacific, Eric Alexander, was fired for sharing the medical records of a customer in India who was raped by her driver in 2014. Alexander reportedly obtained the victim’s medical records while in India and shared them with CEO Travis Kalanick and V.P. of Business Emil Michael.
Uber is also under criminal investigation over the company’s alleged use of “Greyball” software, which reportedly allowed Uber to hide cars from regulators and law enforcement.
A good business model does not exclude potential customers based on political qualifications. Uber is run by ducking fummies.
Easy peasy!
https://www.lyft.com/
That’s easy, I removed the app a couple of months ago when they decided to use SPLC as a guide to ‘hate’.
Unfortunately, Czar, Lyft also refers to SPLC.
It is another of those megla-middleman companies.
They bill themselves as the largest ride sharing company, and yet they own zero vehicles. They just wrote an app, and then suck off the profits of other’s efforts.
Well I don’t care much for them either. I will love it when their house of cards comes tumbling down.
taught modern business practices ?
1) piss off customer base with politics
2) limit your advertising based on politics
modern university education, who needs it ?
You get what you pay for. I’ve never heard of Yellow Cab drivers accepting rides and then not showing up, or raping customers, or throwing people out on the street when they didn’t agree with their political views.
But I have heard about it with Uber.
I tried to download and use their app about a year ago. Never worked.
I see I saved myself a big headache.
World Football League, where are you now that we need you?
Lyft hired Valerie Jarrett to their board.
Oops – wrong post. Damn back button. Should have been on previous one. Correcting now.
P.S. – Need edit.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd that’s whut competition is for!
I deleted my seldom used account.
In the reason I said, “You hate Breitbart. By default you hate its readers. The left is The Borg.”