Queensland government blocked Ubers email, so they delivered 15,000 letters to them via horse and ca
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[QUOTE]Ever gotten so mad at someone for not replying to your emails that you had them delivered by horse and cart? No? Well, [B]Uber[/B] did, because hey: if you've got all the money in the world why not spend it on crazy stuff?
After Queensland passed a bunch of laws cracking down on Uber, including increased fines for drivers, Uber emailed out a link to [B]Queensland[/B] users of the service that opened a blank email filled out with the addy of every local MP, urging them to voice their support for the service.
It turns out a lot of people did it: according to [B]Labor MP Jim Pearce[/B] some MPs got between 6,000 and 10,000 emails, which is almost as many as what you used to get when [B]Facebook[/B] sent you an email every time you got a notification.
When they found out that the [B]Government[/B] had been blocking their emails, Uber took it upon themselves to make sure that they got the message somehow. I'm not super sure how doing it by horse is any more practical than doing it by car, which would seem more fitting, but it definitely makes the headline to this article more interesting.
A horse, cart and a driver with a fancy hat rocked up to [B]Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk[/B]'s office in [B]Brisbane[/B] with over 15,000 printouts of the emails, which almost definitely will never be read but sure make a neat symbolic gesture. [/QUOTE]
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That seems kind of petty.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;50252658]That seems kind of petty.[/QUOTE]
the goverment blocked their emails so peoples concerns wern't going thru
be petty to the people and you deserve it back in tenfold.
Queensland acts like it's the 1800's anyway, we might as well re-institute horse and carriage mail delivery.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;50252658]That seems kind of petty.[/QUOTE]
People voice concern with government, government sticks their fingers in their ears and goes LALALA, people find different avenue of communication to voice their concerns through, seems pretty normal to me.
so let me guess Queensland is bowing down to the Taxi mob yes ?
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;50252705]so let me guess Queensland is bowing down to the Taxi mob yes ?[/QUOTE]
yep, taxi industry lobbied Katter's Australia Party to pass an absurd piece of legislation which not only made ubers "illegal" but also made courtesy buses, limos and some shuttle services illegal as well by mistake
drivers caught being ubers get fined from the transport department but uber said they'd pay all the fines anyway
that is so fucked up
not rly, a lot of people inside the government and transport department use ubers, i was told that by a driver recently who said a transport official rode with him and told him what was going on inside
katter is out of touch and i dont think either party was fully on board with it, wont be surprised if in the next 3 years this legislation is scrapped
in the mean time, you can still get ubers they're just "heavily discouraged" aka pls give money to filthy taxi cabs
taxis are starting to die if this is the case if they have to resort to these attics to stay relevant
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;50252705]so let me guess Queensland is bowing down to the Taxi mob yes ?[/QUOTE]
it's not a mob. it's an industry manned by people for whom the status quo has just changed. you don't need to take sides to appreciate that. uber is a great service but there is also an underlying human dimension to the issue.
although like everywhere else i'm sure it far exceeds taxis and probably involves regulatory issues with internet companies like Uber and Air Bnb.
Well if taxis provided a better service it wouldn't be an issue.
Its mostly the taxi companies that are fed up with their old way of doing things being usurped by Uber.
If the taxi drivers don't like it, they can move to Uber themselves.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;50252740]yep, taxi industry lobbied Katter's Australia Party to pass an absurd piece of legislation which not only made ubers "illegal" but also made courtesy buses, limos and some shuttle services illegal as well by mistake
drivers caught being ubers get fined from the transport department but uber said they'd pay all the fines anyway[/QUOTE]
Labor passed it too.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;50252925]Labor passed it too.[/QUOTE]
I'm betting the lobbying went both ways.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;50252925]Labor passed it too.[/QUOTE]
And my local member who I voted for voted in favour
Queensland has fucked politics
[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;50252691]People voice concern with government, government sticks their fingers in their ears and goes LALALA, people find different avenue of communication to voice their concerns through, seems pretty normal to me.[/QUOTE]
[quote]Uber emailed out a link to Queensland users of the service that opened a blank email filled out with the addy of every local MP, urging them to voice their support for the service.[/quote]
Sounds more like Uber encouraged people to spam the Government, so they just blocked the emails.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;50253025]Sounds more like Uber encouraged people to spam the Government, so they just blocked the emails.[/QUOTE]
Uh, no. Citizens should have a right to have their opinion heard by the government.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;50253045]Uh, no. Citizens should have a right to have their opinion heard by the government.[/QUOTE]
And they have been heard. But sending out thousands of emails to each member of parliament is both unnecessary and just spam, and also could make it hard for those MPs to filter through the crap to address other emails - other concerns - from their other constituents.
Well if they're going to consider the opinion of the thousands of people sending the emails as crap, then fuck them -- they very much deserve this.
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And its not going to be difficult for them to sort through it either.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;50253618]Well if they're going to consider the opinion of the thousands of people sending the emails as crap, then fuck them -- they very much deserve this.
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And its not going to be difficult for them to sort through it either.[/QUOTE]
[quote=Article]After Queensland passed a bunch of laws cracking down on Uber, including increased fines for drivers, Uber emailed out a link to Queensland users of the service that opened a blank email filled out with the addy of every local MP, urging them to voice their support for the service.[/quote]
Almost literally spam. Especially because people are not just contacting their own MP, but every other MP of QLD's legislative assembly - who they are not constituents of. The QLD legislative assembly has 89 seats. Therefore, in each MP's email inbox, on average about only 1 of each 89 emails about Uber were from someone within their constituency. The other 88 of each 89 were from people not in their constituency.
Like I disagree with QLD's laws regarding Uber, but this is just a coordinated spam attack.
[QUOTE=sb27;50253653]Almost literally spam. Especially because people are not just contacting their own MP, but every other MP of QLD's legislative assembly - who they are not constituents of. The QLD legislative assembly has 89 seats. Therefore, in each MP's email inbox, on average about only 1 of each 89 emails about Uber were from someone within their constituency. The other 88 of each 89 were from people not in their constituency.
Like I disagree with QLD's laws regarding Uber, but this is just a coordinated spam attack.[/QUOTE]
I don't understand how you think it's spam. Annoying? Yes. But the messages are relevant to the uber situation.
[QUOTE=sb27;50253653]Almost literally spam. Especially because people are not just contacting their own MP, but every other MP of QLD's legislative assembly - who they are not constituents of. The QLD legislative assembly has 89 seats. Therefore, in each MP's email inbox, on average about only 1 of each 89 emails about Uber were from someone within their constituency. The other 88 of each 89 were from people not in their constituency.
Like I disagree with QLD's laws regarding Uber, but this is just a coordinated spam attack.[/QUOTE]
I still don't see how this is spam. Every one of those MPs has an effect on repealing the legislation, no? So it'd make sense to send it to every one of them.
[QUOTE=Zet;50253675]I don't understand how you think it's spam. Annoying? Yes. But the messages are relevant to the uber situation.[/QUOTE]
Because most emails about Uber in each MP's inbox - on average 88 of each 89 emails, are not from their own constituency. They are irrelevant.
If I have a problem with government, I will email my member of parliament about it. I won't email every damn MP in the entire legislative assembly. Those other MPs owe me nothing.
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