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Why is it surprising or out of place? How is this different from hotels that will not rent out rooms to prostitutes, even if they are not 'working'? I imagine i
by rmk 4y ago
Why is it surprising or out of place? How is this different from hotels that will not rent out rooms to prostitutes, even if they are not 'working'? I imagine it must be burdensome to AirBnB to distinguish the two scenarios, and it will likely ruin their reputation, same as drug dealing out of hotel rooms or airbnb properties would. If hotel chains have these databases of sex workers in their workers heads' (hotel managers presumably have lists or can recognize sex workers by sight), then why can't AirBnB build a database or use facial recognition to do the same thing? And hotels are not denying Muslims access to bookings, so why imply that AirBnB would/could?
I'm trying to understand how AirBnB, which necessarily has to rely on technology to perform these functions (that hotels already do via their employees) is such a threat.