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Restricting hospitality bookings is hardly infringing anybody's freedom to assemble.

• jdminhbg 6y ago
  In what way is the DC government preventing travelers from reaching DC not infringement on freedom of assembly? It may be, given covid, the right decision, but it’s an infringement nevertheless.
  • MattGaiser 6y ago
    Because it is not the DC government making the call. DC officials asked people not to go. Airbnb is the one blocking reservations and it made the decision to do so. It was not because of a government edict.
  • ashtonkem 6y ago
    The DC government asked people to not assemble. The government is free to make requests that it would not legally be able to enforce, and parties are free to comply or give the government the finger. In this case AirBnB has decided to voluntarily comply; I am sure there are other hotels and private lodgings that will do the opposite. This is not a story about trampling of rights. This is actually a story about what happens once a party loses the presumption of good faith. After 1/6 a lot of people are looking at the planned inauguration "protest" and saying "No, I think you're going to try another insurrection and I want no part of it".
• hartator 6y ago
  If it doesn't make the DC protests more difficult, what's the point then?
  • ashtonkem 6y ago
    Of course it makes protesting more difficult. The issue is that you have no affirmative right to a hotel room, not even under a cockamamie theory about what the “freedom to assemble” means.