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Wow . . . I am doing a bad job of keeping my message clear. Yes, of course, I mean protected from the government, but I also mean protected from customers, and
by goodcanadian 14y ago
Wow . . . I am doing a bad job of keeping my message clear.
Yes, of course, I mean protected from the government, but I also mean protected from customers, and protected from less scrupulous competition (which may be uncomfortably close to the point that tlrobinson was trying to make, but you have to understand that the airbnb owners are generally not following the same rules that the hotels are required to).
I am just waiting for the first time someone gets sued because they didn't post the rates and a map to the fire escape on the back of the door.
- 001sky 14y agoNo worries, "consumer protection" laws and "protection racket" are quasi-idomatic expressions. [1] e.g. even here in your example of the fire: its true that not-breaking the law "protects you" from being prosecuted. But the law itself (ie=must show fire escape) is called a "consumer protection" law (ie, by idiom). Its not on the books to keep the hotelier out of jail...it's on the books to keep the consumer from dying in a fire because s/he gets lost =D/. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom