Italian architects have called on the government and the Antitrust Authority to close down a crowdsourcing platform in a new round of the battle against disruptive technology.

Taxi associations convinced a Milan court to ban the UberPop car-sharing app Tuesday on the grounds that it constituted unfair competition and put the safety of passengers at risk.

Now, professional architects have mounted a similar argument against the CoContest crowdsourcing platform, a Rome startup that is the only Italian company this year to be invited to the 500 Startups incubator lab in Mountain View, California, (whose Web site invites you to “Meet our badass, global family of startup founders, mentors, and investors”).

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