&gt; ...yet you don&#x27;t want Uber to do proper background checks. Okay.<p>Heh. When did I say that? I bet you can&#x27;t provide a quote... because I neither said it, nor implied it. :)<p>From the sound of it, it&#x27;s <i>you</i> who&#x27;s interested in forgoing proper background checks, and just blackballing <i>everyone</i> who&#x27;s been convicted of a felony:<p>&gt; In other words, &quot;Hey, Uber hires known felons and its okay because I can think of a scenario where background checks fail.&quot;<p>Think through your statement:<p>* You -obviously- strongly disagree with Grishnakh&#x27;s assertion that background checks are frequently going to be insufficient to root out <i>everyone</i> who would harm another human while driving them around... especially when they&#x27;ve recently arrived in the country.<p>* You express that disagreement by rephrasing his statement as (and I&#x27;m paraphrasing here) &quot;Because background checks fail, it&#x27;s okay to hire convicted felons who&#x27;ve served their time and are now out of jail.&quot;.<p>* This implies that you feel that blanket prohibitions on employing people who&#x27;ve been previously convicted of a felony are acceptable.<p>If one wants to perform a more-thorough-than-usual background check on folks convicted of a felony, charge them more to perform the check. [0] Do <i>that</i>, rather than instituting a policy that ends up being -at best- dramatically classist, -at worst- dramatically racist, and -at all times- dramatically damaging to the folks who&#x27;ve reformed themselves and are now decent, honest, useful people.<p>&gt; You are saying &quot;Well, yes the burden is shifted to drivers and that is okay.&quot;<p>Sure, but that wasn&#x27;t the core of your argument. Your argument&#x27;s core was that Uber et. al. were being dishonest and&#x2F;or intentionally deceptive about the limits of their coverage.<p>&gt; You clearly don&#x27;t understand what I&#x27;ve written at all...<p>No, I do. I can read both the text <i>and</i> the subtext of what you&#x27;ve written. :)<p>[0] But, frankly, the same level of scrutiny should be applied to <i>everyone</i>... you never know who&#x27;s an antisocial scumbag that just hasn&#x27;t been caught yet.