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you can say this same thing about Airbnb. how many listings are illegal? and yet they don’t proactively purge illegal listings unless some city aggressively goe
by tempsy 6y ago
you can say this same thing about Airbnb. how many listings are illegal? and yet they don’t proactively purge illegal listings unless some city aggressively goes after them in court.
- zaroth 6y agoNone of AirBnb listings were likely illegal in the early days, because what they were doing was not regulated. Also, I’d say there’s a big difference between the homeowner choosing to list their home against a city regulation that the homeowner is choosing to violate, versus users uploading content that they don’t own in the first place. Even a tenant who is AirBnb’ing their unit against their lease terms is at least listing their own unit / choosing to violate an agreement that they themselves have signed. AirBnb to me is unique in that their regulations came afterward to combat the monumental rise of short term rentals, whereas Section 230 / DMCA regulations are what enabled the other sites to ultimately growth hack on the back of infringement.
- tempsy 6y agoit’s not a big difference. both platforms are looking the other way when it comes to policing illegal content on their platforms because they make money off it whether it’s legal or not. they are choosing to offload the responsibility to the users as much as possible.
- rsynnott 6y agoI mean, it depends where you were, I suppose. In many places, Airbnbs were illegal from the start (at least for the whole-home rental type; the rent a room type are much fuzzier), as they breached planning rules that only allowed residential use for particular buildings etc. The problem is that enforcement was very poor.