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> the ability for their platform to facilitate racism Hunh? Care to elaborate on a) what specifically AirBNB does to facilitate racism, and b) what you'd expe

> the ability for their platform to facilitate racism Hunh? Care to elaborate on a) what specifically AirBNB does to facilitate racism, and b) what you'd expect them to change about their 'platform' to stop people from being horrible?

Top19 9y ago
In regards to AirBnB, there were a lot of concerns that people were simply not renting out to certain races. Stuff like a black male tries to rent for a certain date, gets denied, and then an hour later a white female tries to rent it for the same date and is approved by the owner. I believe in the example I'm citing the person affected actually created the second account of the "white female" and tried to keep the language very similar when they booked, so this example was pretty egregious. There were also cases, although this probably fits in the category of mentally ill and just really mean, of people sending messages like "sorry no Asians" after denying a renters request. AirBnB did respond though. One of the changes they made was how the profile picture was displayed during the booking process. Either they made it smaller or removed it completely if you were an owner approving people.
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hueving 9y ago
As a property lister, you are able to see the profile pic and name of the person asking to rent from you. This enables people to decide based on race/sexism pretty easily.
- hueving 9y ago
  Not sure why this was downvoted, it's trivial for discrimination to occur when so much detail about a potential tenant is revealed and no reason needs to be provided for a rejection.
alexbeloi 9y ago
>Hunh? Care to elaborate on a) what specifically AirBNB does to facilitate racism, and b) what you'd expect them to change about their 'platform' to stop people from being horrible? They are aware of a problem with some hosts discriminating against certain guests. Here is an article describing some things they're trying to combat this in California in particular. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/28/airbnb-let-california-test-racist-hosts-after-reports-of-bias-against-african-americans/101032640/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/28/airbnb-l...

Top19 9y ago

In regards to AirBnB, there were a lot of concerns that people were simply not renting out to certain races. Stuff like a black male tries to rent for a certain date, gets denied, and then an hour later a white female tries to rent it for the same date and is approved by the owner. I believe in the example I'm citing the person affected actually created the second account of the "white female" and tried to keep the language very similar when they booked, so this example was pretty egregious. There were also cases, although this probably fits in the category of mentally ill and just really mean, of people sending messages like "sorry no Asians" after denying a renters request. AirBnB did respond though. One of the changes they made was how the profile picture was displayed during the booking process. Either they made it smaller or removed it completely if you were an owner approving people.

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hueving 9y ago

As a property lister, you are able to see the profile pic and name of the person asking to rent from you. This enables people to decide based on race/sexism pretty easily.

hueving 9y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted, it's trivial for discrimination to occur when so much detail about a potential tenant is revealed and no reason needs to be provided for a rejection.

alexbeloi 9y ago

>Hunh? Care to elaborate on a) what specifically AirBNB does to facilitate racism, and b) what you'd expect them to change about their 'platform' to stop people from being horrible? They are aware of a problem with some hosts discriminating against certain guests. Here is an article describing some things they're trying to combat this in California in particular. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/28/airbnb-let-california-test-racist-hosts-after-reports-of-bias-against-african-americans/101032640/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/28/airbnb-l...