Then the very environment that Uber thrives on would be gone. They'd have to adapt as well.

They need drivers, and if they can arrest executives, they can likely arrest drivers as well. Interestingly, France has a heavily unionized workforce...so maybe the Uber drivers need to unionize (jk).

And while France may have a legal basis to take those actions, I hate that they give the union protestors, who damaged and disrupted so much, what they wanted. It sends a message for others to follow suit. France is in a pickle.

Yes, Uber has one goal and that is make as much money as possible. They don't care about the Taxi companies, and in the end they won't care about their own drivers. They will make the plays they can now to capitalize as much as possible on their success to date. They might even agree to purchase licenses, boost driver requirements, etc. In which case they start looking more and more like the taxi companies.

You don't know what failure rate to expect from SpaceX because it hasn't flown enough to establish it with any accuracy, but you seem to rationalize that theirs is OK.

Rocket launching is hard and risky, but it is not new. SpaceX shouldn't be given a pass.

Musk already had one big pop today.

You made my point well. Great rationalization!

That ain't a nose!

But...you started it.....

I think the media needs to stop oversimplifying science and technology to the point where the average joe thinks he really knows something about it, not realizing all of the devils in the details, assumptions make a difference, risk are overstated or misrepresented, etc..

Reporting should to such a depth that that the knowledgeable gain more insight, and less knowledgeable people realize their limits of understanding and decide to put in the work to learn, or leave it to the qualified. (This includes politicians.).

But the media gets just about every technology and science wrong when it comes to accurate reporting. AI is no different, why expect a different result?

Those private space insurance premiums should be skyrocketing....

I'm guessing /. will be a lot more forgiving than if this were a NASA failure.

Agree. There are ways to protect anonymity using free speech rights as a basis, as well as other basis like whistleblower protection. But anonymity itself is not a right.

Accountability does not necessarily mean one will suffer a penalty. Look up the definition.

Is it OK to suffer civil prosecution for expressing an opinion? I guess many would answer differently depending on the expressed opinion. So, it really doesn't matter and is not relevant to my specific point.