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Airbnb also needs to face punishment. It's crazy that they can actively support people breaking laws. Silk Road gets shut down because they helped people buy il

Airbnb also needs to face punishment. It's crazy that they can actively support people breaking laws. Silk Road gets shut down because they helped people buy illegal drugs but when Airbnb helps sell illegal hotel rooms, nothing happens. Uber, Airbnb, and many of these other 3rd wave tech companies are more legally inventive than technologically innovative. They all make money because they lower costs by circumventing laws. Hotels have to be ADA-compliant and their fire systems are tested.

angryasian 8y ago
exactly. If anyone has the data as to how many units a single person or persons of relation are renting its airbnb. Airbnb is clearly screwing the citizens and the city over here.
shados 8y ago
It always baffles me how many units in big cities are on Airbnb. Virtually every lease I've signed had clauses about subletting, with precedents on those clauses being enforced. Virtually every condo building have bylaws against short term rentals. Pretty much all towns have zonings that would cover these things. While the applicability of some of these is up in there air, at least SOME of these rules apply and would drastically reduce the feasibility of some of these rentals...but Airbnb makes it so easy in comparison with how hard it is to do something against it.
- dumbfoundded 8y ago
  A lot of these tech companies don't recognize laws unless they see enforcement. An important part of a civil society to remember is that laws don't exist if they only exist on paper. Zoning doesn't matter if it isn't enforced. We're starting to see some enforcement but it almost always goes against a small guy. Airbnb isn't getting fined, the small family business is. Uber drivers with criminal records, driving drunk, assaulting passengers, and without commercial insurance don't get Uber in trouble either.

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Airbnb also needs to face punishment. It's crazy that they can actively support people breaking laws. Silk Road gets shut down because they helped people buy il

by dumbfoundded 8y ago

angryasian 8y ago
exactly. If anyone has the data as to how many units a single person or persons of relation are renting its airbnb. Airbnb is clearly screwing the citizens and the city over here.
shados 8y ago
It always baffles me how many units in big cities are on Airbnb. Virtually every lease I've signed had clauses about subletting, with precedents on those clauses being enforced. Virtually every condo building have bylaws against short term rentals. Pretty much all towns have zonings that would cover these things. While the applicability of some of these is up in there air, at least SOME of these rules apply and would drastically reduce the feasibility of some of these rentals...but Airbnb makes it so easy in comparison with how hard it is to do something against it.
- dumbfoundded 8y ago
  A lot of these tech companies don't recognize laws unless they see enforcement. An important part of a civil society to remember is that laws don't exist if they only exist on paper. Zoning doesn't matter if it isn't enforced. We're starting to see some enforcement but it almost always goes against a small guy. Airbnb isn't getting fined, the small family business is. Uber drivers with criminal records, driving drunk, assaulting passengers, and without commercial insurance don't get Uber in trouble either.