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Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board

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198 points 101carl | 3 comments | 22 Jun 17 00:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.587s | source
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johan_larson ◴[22 Jun 17 01:32 UTC] No.14609498[source]▶
I remain flabbergasted by all of this upheaval at Uber. What's happening is the sort of housecleaning I would expect if the company had to file for bankruptcy or got caught flat out bribing judges or something. But really, what triggered all this was acting like jerks.

It seems to me, what should have happened (a long time ago) was that they got shut down for systematically breaking the law, or encouraging others to do so. That would have made sense.

But instead they are getting flayed alive by not much more than bad press for being jerks. Makes no goddamn sense.

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stale2002 ◴[22 Jun 17 02:39 UTC] No.14609754[source]▶
Sexual harassment and retaliation against employees for reporting it is not "just being jerks".

It is illegal.

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tyingq ◴[22 Jun 17 03:13 UTC] No.14609880[source]▶
Perhaps it should be actually illegal, like criminally punishible, but it is not.

It is a tort, civil violation, etc...but nobody is going to jail.

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jmspring ◴[22 Jun 17 03:43 UTC] No.14609982[source]▶
Sigh. Arguing logic of proper behavior on these matters on HN always results in apologists making excuses as to how it should have been handled.
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1. tyingq ◴[22 Jun 17 03:47 UTC] No.14609999[source]▶
Well, no. I specifically pointed out that perhaps it should be criminal. I felt it worth noting not for pedantry, but because we have a fair number of readers that might wonder why nobody was being prosecuted if it is indeed a crime.
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2. delazeur ◴[22 Jun 17 04:01 UTC] No.14610044[source]▶
"Illegal" and "criminal" are not the same thing.
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3. tyingq ◴[22 Jun 17 04:15 UTC] No.14610084[source]▶
Illegal is most often, though not always, used in the context of something criminal. The ambiguity is why I commented. I thought I included enough couched language, apparently not.