Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’

The approach also has “a deep irony at its core,” because the company has long marketed itself as one of the safest ways to get around — especially after a night out, said Nora Freeman Engstrom, a legal ethics professor at Stanford Law School.

“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly script: If a woman drank, if she rode alone, if it was late, if her memory is imperfect, then maybe she is to blame,” Ms. Engstrom said. “But those are precisely the circumstances when Uber told consumers its service was supposed to protect them.”

Yep.

Ms. Silverberg also probed Ms. Doe’s childhood, asking if she had felt abandoned by her father or degraded by her mother.

She pushed Ms. Doe for details about consensual sex and asked whether she had previously been sexually abused or had sex in exchange for money. That is when her lawyer ended the deposition.

It is extremely hard not to feel like ms. Silverberg should get some personal experience on how it is to he raped. Fuck all of this, this woman should be disbarred. This has nothing to do with justice, this is just setting an example: you get raped because of us? Try and hold us responsible for our actions and we will destroy you

Uber's lawyer's questioning of the victim show how little they care about their customers.

Lyft lets women choose to ride with other women.

Great investigation by the New York Times 👏 👏