Yes, Ghana has been through a lot of dictatorship rule until recently when we saw the light of reducing government involvement in people's lives. But why does that matter here?

>Also, with the tactics Uber has historically used - in a "proper" free market, would they not become a monopoly?

How so? it's very easy to start a ride-hailing service. In fact, I've lost count of how many of them we have here in Accra. Uber itself has been forced to reduce its charges by other competitors like Yango[1], Bolt(Taxify) and even ironically the traditional taxi providers.

These days, I don't even bother to order uber or Yango or Taxify because the taxis are responding to the competition.

[1] https://yango.yandex.com/en_gh/

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Why do you think that the millions of Londoners who voluntarily chose Uber over traditional taxi services should be denied the freedom to choose what taxi services to use?