Please don't post shallow provocations to HN, and especially don't take HN threads into political or (god help us) nationalistic flamewar. None of that is what this site is for.
Indeed, probably massive delays by Ubers legal team.
The whitelisting principle should apply for such things, this disrupt now, ask later is just a trick to gain market share at the expense of taxpayers and employees and competition which abides by the regulations.
Or if you have enough money to by pass the laws all together.
Take a look at HSBC[1][2]....they got caught laundering money for Mexican cartel and helped NK/Iran circumvent the nuclear sanctions. They were given a slap on the wrist of 2 billion dollars in fines. (Can't find the source but they were also caught transferring money to known terrorist groups)
If anyone is interested there is a Netflix show they covers this. I think it's called Dirty Money. [3]
