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Yes, by all means, use a tool designed to fight the mafia and terrorists to criminalize a housing regulation dispute. That makes sense.
by tannhauser23 9y ago
Yes, by all means, use a tool designed to fight the mafia and terrorists to criminalize a housing regulation dispute. That makes sense.
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- bkor 9y ago> a housing regulation dispute That makes it seem like a minor issue. AirBNB is facilitating this. AirBNB must allow the government to check up on local regulations. Limitations on how many days you can rent out your property and seeing how many properties each individual has is something only AirBNB has. It's further a very common thing related to their business. The main revenue source for AirBNB is exactly what governments (local city, etc) want data of. AirBNB has often tried to block this, saying it's should be checked without any effort on their part. It took years of talks for AirBNB to cooperate in e.g. Amsterdam. Fortunately EU is now putting this all into law. If AirBNB is allowing people to easily break local regulations and AirBNB is made aware of that fact they should follow the local regulations. In most industries following local regulations is a common sense thing. There's also sometimes a personal effect of not following regulations. E.g. if someone on a vessel spills 1 liter of oil in the water that person can get a jail sentence for this. It doesn't matter if it was an accident or not. Then for things like AirBNB, Uber, etc completely different rules apply. It makes no sense.