The silence on these issues is deafening. Neither AirBnB nor their fans have appear to have any intention of voluntarily stepping up and saying something about this. It might spoil the party, after all.
AirBnB's supposed multi-billion valuation is built by completely flaunting the law in its biggest markets. For all the talk of "community" in this annual report, there is no mention of the potential long-term social or economic impact of enabling lawbreaking on such a scale. The fact that none of the reporter's questions in the NYTimes article were addressed in any meaningful way is indicative of AirBnB's overall "whatever we can get away with" attitude.
Oh, and here is another topic I'm sure AirBnB is not eager to talk about:
AirBnB's supposed multi-billion valuation is built by completely flaunting the law in its biggest markets. For all the talk of "community" in this annual report, there is no mention of the potential long-term social or economic impact of enabling lawbreaking on such a scale. The fact that none of the reporter's questions in the NYTimes article were addressed in any meaningful way is indicative of AirBnB's overall "whatever we can get away with" attitude.
Oh, and here is another topic I'm sure AirBnB is not eager to talk about:
http://google.com/search?q=airbnb+rent+control+san+francisco