One rule for UBER, another for Google and Ebay

Welcome to "The Real World," Uber.

Rule Number One: If you haven't cornered the market, you can't bully people into making yourself above the law.

Ebay's the only auction site. Google's really the only search engine (and they've added dominance on the Internet with GooTube, Blogspot, Google Maps, Google Payments etc.)

Uber? Nah, every city has a "Taxi and Limousine Commission" and every town has established cabbies who can lean on local politicians to prevent "unfair" tactics.

That's why, Coast to Coast, Uber took a hit the other day.

In New York, authorities had nothing better to do than spend a month impounding nearly 500 Uber cars for picking up fares off the street (the way licensed Yellow cabs do). Uber's drivers are only supposed to pick up passengers who've diddled their cell phones and booked rides in advance.

In California, where eBay was spawned? Sorry, Uber. You are responsible for your freelancers. This isn't so for Ebay, the "We are JUST A VENUE" company. Google also gets a pass because they are JUST supplying blogs where people give away every Beach Boys album or every porn video and make money off banner ads, Paypal donations and fees from the Stinkyshare companies that host the illegal material. They also figure they are NOT RESPONSIBLE for guiding people to websites that offer illegal merchandise, or "revenge porn."

Somehow, in "The Real World," Uber IS responsible for what their drivers do. New laws could force them to do such basic things as pay for health insurance, and routine vehicle maintenance.

One rule for EBAY and GOOGLE and other Internet Nazis, but another for everyone else.

UBER can't say, "Listen, our drivers MIGHT not have valid driver's licenses or be of legal age. You'll need a court order for us to even ask, much less tell them not to drive for us." UBER has enough sense to make sure of who works for them. Not so with EBAY and certainly not with GOOGLE who doesn't even require a valid credit card or any identity to start ripping off copyright owners.

When it comes to getting away with it, it's not UBER, it's EBAY and GOOGLE UBER ALLES.