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Taxi Association President Says UberX Is Just Like ISIS

Giuseppe Macri Tech Editor
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Silicon Valley ridesharing service Uber’s insurgent entry into the automobile transportation industry isn’t going well for some in Pennsylvania, where the president of the state’s taxi association compared the company to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS this week.

“I try to equate this illegal operation of UberX as a terroristic act like ISIS invading the Middle East,” Alex Friedman said according to a Business Insider report. “It is exactly the same menace.”

UberX is the least-expensive Uber tier, which claims to be cheaper and faster than taking a taxi in New York City — business merits apparently on par with invasion, kidnapping, rape, genocide, beheadings and murder, according to Friedman.

The service is considered illegal in Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Parking Authority has been impounding UberX cars since the service launched in the city last summer.

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