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More from the article:

"Over dinner, he outlined the notion of spending “a million dollars” to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists. That team could, he said, help Uber fight back against the press — they’d look into “your personal lives, your families,” and give the media a taste of its own medicine.

Michael was particularly focused on one journalist, Sarah Lacy, the editor of the Silicon Valley website PandoDaily, a sometimes combative voice inside the industry. Lacy recently accused Uber of “sexism and misogyny.” She wrote that she was deleting her Uber app after BuzzFeed News reported that Uber appeared to be working with a French escort service. “I don’t know how many more signals we need that the company simply doesn’t respect us or prioritize our safety,” she wrote.

At the dinner, Michael expressed outrage at Lacy’s column and said that women are far more likely to get assaulted by taxi drivers than Uber drivers. He said that he thought Lacy should be held “personally responsible” for any woman who followed her lead in deleting Uber and was then sexually assaulted.

Then he returned to the opposition research plan. Uber’s dirt-diggers, Michael said, could expose Lacy. They could, in particular, prove a particular and very specific claim about her personal life."

And:

"At the Waverly Inn dinner, it was suggested that a plan like the one Michael floated could become a problem for Uber.

Michael responded: “Nobody would know it was us.”"

From another article:

"Uber has been subject to a long string of bad press because of its own actions. The Verge reported on the tactics that Uber is using to sabotage Lyft and the questionable jobs that its offering to veterans. Uber also recently offered a promotion in France that allowed passengers to request that a "hot chick" drive them around. This is yet another wild misstep that could have been avoided, but instead it speaks to the bad company culture that story after story has spoken to inside of Uber."

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/18/7240215/uber-exec-casually-threatens-sarah-lacy-with-smear-campaign

bgamall4 says

Journalists in America are shills for the government in many instances. They deserve to be researched.

This journalist doesn't sound like a government shill. She is often a critic of Silicon Valley corporations. If she is silenced, then there may be a domino effect of intimidation of journalists with critical viewpoints of corporate America. And bgmall, there goes the alternative media. Your website could be next.

So much for slander and liability laws.

It's too bad the Liberals can't be shamed into doing the right thing.

Indiana Jones says

Michael was particularly focused on one journalist, Sarah Lacy, the editor of the Silicon Valley website PandoDaily, a sometimes combative voice inside the industry. Lacy recently accused Uber of “sexism and misogyny.” She wrote that she was deleting her Uber app after BuzzFeed News reported that Uber appeared to be working with a French escort service.

Sarah Lacy is a 24k Bully and general Misanthrope. Here's her trying to blackmail a convention hall that already gave Pando severely discounted rates and privileges, like letting them bring in outside food (A massive concession in the convention industry, one that I work in - this is almost never allowed and when it is, you usually pay through the ass for it).
http://valleywag.gawker.com/pandodailys-threatening-email-meltdown-1149039909

(Sorry for linking Gawker, but sometimes two shitty horrible tabloids going at each other is revealing).

As for speaking truth to power, she cozzies up to Silicon Valley generally and is a sycophant to tech companies who thinks she's a genius. Here she is bitching about not getting a TED speakership:
http://getoffmyinternets.net/scoble-tells-sarah-lacy-to-suck-it/

A horrible interviewer, so bad the crowd turns on her:
http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2008/03/the-problem-wit.html
http://www.wired.com/2008/03/sxsw-mark-zucke/

The one thing you can say about Lacy is that she's got big balls, stubborn as hell. However, this same stubbornness prevents her from growing as a person.

Escorting is legal in France and there's no reason she should be against Uber transporting French Escorts, unless she's a Female Supremicist who believes restricting Male Access to casual paid sex is a means of keeping men down.

Indiana Jones says

bgamall4 says

Journalists in America are shills for the government in many instances. They deserve to be researched.

This journalist doesn't sound like a government shill. She is often a critic of Silicon Valley corporations. If she is silenced, then there may be a domino effect of intimidation of journalists with critical viewpoints of corporate America. And bgmall, there goes the alternative media. Your website could be next.

Corporations are infinitely more respectable than journalists.

Profit is more noble than that nonexistent, unobservable "truth."

I stand with Uber. Journalism is worthless. We do not need peddlers of grand narratives.

He has offered an immense hirsute lesbian Uber driver app for those feminist journalists who want a savage clam snarfing along with their ride.

What more could Sarah Lacy ask for? Maybe she is demanding the broadcast rights.

Slandering a journalist is almost as hard as slandering a realtor, almost anything you can make up about them turns out to be true.

Yes, we need to understand that immense hirsute lesbians snarfing clam and immense hirsute lesbians eating rancid clams represent two separate and distinct threats of different magnitude.

One belongs on HBO After Dark, the other is used to rapidly clear stadiums when there is a bomb threat.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

The latter, upholstery.

Also useful for emulsifying concrete at demolitions.