Airbnb is an illegal hotel and Uber is an illegal jitney cab. Why we allow this just because these illegalities are attached to apps is beyond me. "No, no, man, I'm not running an illegal car service. It's an app!"

Airbnb is an illegal hotel and Uber is an illegal jitney cab. Why we allow this just because these illegalities are attached to apps is beyond me. "No, no, man, I'm not running an illegal car service. It's an app!"

This is a bad mult, right?

So no one is upset over this? How is this supposed to happen in a free society? Forcing an American to read up on the history of some other culture and pay 5k is just facist.

Is the boards biggest Trumpkin now calling for more government regulation?

I honestly believe in free association and voluntaryism so if this woman doesn't want to rent based upon idiotic prejudice fine. I'm sure AirBnB has their own internal way of dealing with this (I know for a fact they do). They ban her from the platform and she doesn't get to rent to anyone so long as she does this. AirBnB as a private firm can choose to do this and no government input is needed her to solve it. In fact, the private market's answer of banning her has a greater impact than any government action ever could.

She just can't do what she did and especially with how she did it and what she said. She deserves everything she got here.

If you want to act like a hotel then you have to follow the rules. Segregation is wrong and illegal.

"Air Bnb and Political Correctnes" - How about Spelling Correctness?

so it's a chas mult ?

well there's a reason Libertarians are not Republicans (despite every Democrat claiming we are). Republicans are ultimately pro regulation if that regulation protects big business from competition.

Are you saying Uber isn't big business? The guy getting fucked is Taxicab Pete and his $200,000 medallion note.

Are you saying Uber isn't big business? The guy getting fucked is Taxicab Pete and his $200,000 medallion note.

Cabs were pretty poor with service. That's why uber and lyft succeeded so quickly.

try to use a credit card in a cab....

try to use a credit card in a cab....

Cabs were pretty poor with service. That's why uber and lyft succeeded so quickly.

Yeah, I feel about the cabbies similarly to how I feel about Trump. Just because they're getting a fuck job doesn't mean they aren't incompetent assbags themselves. Who wants to ride with Abdul jabbering in Arabic into his headset? But I will say the quality of Uber has declined. There used to be standards for cars but the other day I got picked up by a guy in a true hooptie.

I'm not saying she didn't deserve it, I'm just saying that these app companies have measures in place to keep people like her off of them and she either 1: continues her ways and doesn't get to use them or 2: follows their rules and gets to use them.

She'll never be allowed on one of these apps again.

That's where it falls on us the users to rate the experience. If the car is in poor shape, let that reflect on the rating you give. That impacts the number of rides said driver will be able to provide.

She won't? That's naive.

i have to think that's pretty rare...i've used Uber a million times and there's only 1 car I can recall that I felt wasn't in good condition

AirBnB is pretty strict in cases like this. If you pull what she did, you're gone and no appeal. They have to maintain a high user experience for the guests or else their app can't survive.

i have to think that's pretty rare...i've used Uber a million times and there's only 1 car I can recall that I felt wasn't in good condition

She can just sign up with a different email address and they will probably never know.