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I agree with you as a normal person, but let's put it in the perspective of the company. That is a move that might hurt them without bringing any (monetary) ben
by duiker101 10y ago
I agree with you as a normal person, but let's put it in the perspective of the company. That is a move that might hurt them without bringing any (monetary) benefit, strict rules like that might mean that instead the user might try other services or avoid renting out completely. While I do not condone the discrimination I can understand that some people might still want to be able to chose who gets in their house and putting rules around that might scare away a lot of people. I do not think this is a problem of AirBnB and I do not think that they will implement rules, what they might do is try to teach more the benefits of cultural diversity.
- caseysoftware 10y agoI think the bigger problem is enforcement. If someone says "I'm not accepting your request because you're X" that's easy to detect and punish. But if it's more subtle and no explicit reason, it's going to be way harder to detect and adds a lot of judgement calls to the mix.. which puts it up the whims of whoever is doing support at that moment. I wrote on this last year on how it could be totally transparent and devastating as a result: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/social-apis-for-social-evil http://caseysoftware.com/blog/social-apis-for-social-evil