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But companies that earns a substantial portion of the revenue from their users' illegal practices either need to actively participate in the investigation and e
by timv 10y ago
But companies that earns a substantial portion of the revenue from their users' illegal practices either need to actively participate in the investigation and enforcement of those laws, or expect that new laws will be created to work around them.
AirBnB didn't want to solve this problem, so NY solved it without AirBnB's help. It's a predictable outcome, and one that AirBnB was hurtling towards once they stood in the path of any other solution.
- wheelerwj 10y agoIf a company profits from illegal activity, isn't that also illegal?
- timv 10y agoIt depends. If they do it knowingly, then usually yes. But eBay profits from people selling stolen goods. A telco profits when people conspire to commit crimes via email or phone. A pharmaceutical company profits when an addict buys drugs under a fake prescription. But the companies aren't specifically commit a crime just because those things happened and the company received income from it. Companies are expected to do take reasonable steps to limit those sorts of activities, and to appropriately assist law enforcement when they seek to investigate or curb such occurrences.
- ewar-woowar 10y agoeBay can't check the source of a 2nd hand item to discern if it is stolen. Surely if there were landlords renting out entire apartment buildings then the sequential addresses would show up in AirBnB's data as mystreet 1a, mystreet 1b, mystreet 1c and so on? It must have been pretty obvious to the point that a routine check against illegal activity should have carried out.