Uber Shuts Down in Belgium

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> “The big advantage is that we offer a solution to these Uber drivers,” Sam Bouchal told the publication in September [translated to English via Google Translate], saying that the Uber drivers could be offered permanent contracts, and adding: “We’re getting them out of illegality.”

If TechCrunch is now just resorting to providing Google Translate versions of quotes from other news stories...something anyone interested in the topic can do themselves...then maybe it's time to just shutdown?

I feel like most news today is copy pasted from other sources. The big sites are acting more like aggregators since it's cheaper to just "have all the existing news" and leverage the popularity they have so that people rather go to their aggregator than smaller news sites actually discovering the news

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