"These days, Craigslist has a lot of warnings about dangerous transactions, and for Airbnb to NOT have had similar warnings until last week suggests its lawyers

"These days, Craigslist has a lot of warnings about dangerous transactions, and for Airbnb to NOT have had similar warnings until last week suggests its lawyers weren't on the ball about what a reasonable standard of care is for being a third party arranging room rental transactions among strangers." It's still not similar. How many people are going to really find that safety page? Compare this with Craigslist which has safety links on the search results and on the post. And Craigslist doesn't take commission from transactions, so it's not really the same boat at all.