> The standoff reflects larger tensions in France over how to regulate fast-moving technology and stay globally competitive while ensuring labour protections.

This kind of biased journalism just pisses me off. Uber has nothing to do with "fast-moving technology". They could have done this service with on old fashioned phone dispatch in the 50s and it would still be the same illegal operation.

Sure, they've added some bells and whistle, but that merely serves to disguise what it really is: offering a cheaper service by breaking multiple laws.

Uber is about breaking the law, not about technology, and I'm glad they finally get treated as the criminals they are.