I work for Airbnb but don't have inside knowledge of this case. If it seems like "all of a sudden" we care about discrimination, then we're not doing a good eno

I work for Airbnb but don't have inside knowledge of this case. If it seems like "all of a sudden" we care about discrimination, then we're not doing a good enough job of communicating. At every level, this company cares deeply about discrimination. As the article states, this host was removed because they violated the non-discrimination policy that we believe makes our community better. It was not because of the law. (We operate in just about every country but our terms are the same worldwide.) This is not new. We have repeatedly, for years, removed hosts who we've determined are discriminating. I can understand if from the outside it seems self-serving and seems like it's being done for PR, and I probably can't convince anyone who has made up their mind to be against Airbnb. But if you could look inside the company or be a fly on our walls, you would know. We all care extremely deeply about discrimination and we are more than willing to remove discriminatory hosts from our platform to make a better, more welcoming community.