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So this is local governments trying to railroad an online information/marketplace/intermediation firm into becoming a tax collector. It's not "railroading", it
by drugme 8y ago
So this is local governments trying to railroad an online information/marketplace/intermediation firm into becoming a tax collector.
It's not "railroading", it's called "the regulated collection of reasonable usage fees." It's how cities are run, and have always been run.
If Airbnb doesn't like it -- they don't need to go into the hospitality business in these places.
- jak92 8y ago> the hospitality business but they're a technology company!
- organsnyder 8y agoThey offer a hotel booking platform. Their value is the network of renters and rooms—the tech stack is fairly trivial by comparison.
- evilotto 8y agoMcDonald's is a real estate company. That doesn't mean they don't sell burgers.
- stcredzero 8y agoIf Airbnb doesn't like it -- they don't need to go into the hospitality business in these places. That's a dangerous precedent there. Any company that acts as online information/marketplace/intermediation is automatically "in the business?" That's a dangerous precedent to set. Does that mean that reddit is the defacto author & publisher of everything on reddit? Amazon is culpable as the manufacturer of everything it sells? (Not just Amazon Basics.) Something about that strikes me as not quite right and very dangerous.