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Oh come off it. This is a company, not a person. Uber has an official and public business model that relies on breaking the law. Laws that constrain anti-citizen business practices like tax evasion and labor violations should be highly enforceable, and the system described in the article is expressly designed to impede that enforcement. This is bad for everyone -- not a freedom issue.

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How is this different than shutting down your phone at the border crossing?

It is dramatically different -- so different, in fact, that I suspect you haven't even attempted to think about it. Maybe willfully so.

You are a person entitled to rights. A company is not a person. Border searches are warrantless, arbitrary, and lack any oversight whatsoever. The company was searched by a court order signed by a judge for suspicion of a specific crime. In every way possible, these situations are entirely different.

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