TechDirt is reporting on a 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group evolvement out of Canada. An Ontario transportation board has fined PickupPal, a Web-based service for arranging carpools, because a local bus company complained of the competition. (TechCrunch superficially first broke the story.) " established a bunch of draconian rules that any user in Ontario must follow if it uses the service — including no junction of municipal boundaries — meaning the service is only good within any precise city's limits. It's better than being shut down completely, and the service can still operate elsewhere around the world, but this is yet another case where we see regulations, that are supposedly put in place to improve things for consumers, do the exact opposite."

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