Airbnb CEO Vows to Fight Racial Discrimination by Hosts

[Palumboism]

Airbnb CEO vows to fight racial discrimination by hosts
By Carolyn Said

After incidents of racial discrimination by hosts that led to online protests, Airbnb tackled its challenges with racism and diversity head on at its annual technical conference on Wednesday.

“We have zero tolerance for any racism or intolerance on our platform and will take swift action if we hear of it,” CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky told 800 employees, developers and others at San Francisco’s City View at Metreon, the site of the third annual OpenAir conference. The company will spend months on a top-to-bottom revamp of its service seeking to prevent discrimination, he said.

Airbnb’s peer-to-peer model, in which hosts and guests connect through its website or app to book unconventional lodging, has come under fire for allowing hosts to discriminate against minority guests. Some black guests have complained that hosts rejected their attempts to book lodging, but accepted them if they re-applied using a white person’s photo, for instance.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Airbnb-CEO-vows-to-fight-racial-discrimination-by-7971380.php


Should people be allowed to decide who stays in their house or apartment?

[BodyMachine]

Umm it's your house, yours, you have every right to say who can and can't enter it for whatever reason.

[SF1900]

Umm it's your house, yours, you have every right to say who can and can't enter it for whatever reason.

While this may be the case, Airbnb is a private organization. Thus, if they feel like some people are being discriminatory, I assume they are allowed to remove hosts from their website.

Its an interesting dilemma. On the one hand, Airbnb is a private organization, so it's their right to set their own standards (as many private organizations do). On the other hand, its people's private homes and/or apartments.

[youandme]

While this may be the case, Airbnb is a private organization. Thus, if they feel like some people are being discriminatory, I assume they are allowed to remove hosts from their website.

Its an interesting dilemma. On the one hand, Airbnb is a private organization, so it's their right to set their own standards (as many private organizations do). On the other hand, its people's private homes and/or apartments.

It's a company, and when they take away people's right to choose who they want to let into their home based on their own prejudices, they'll go under.

Time for a competitor.

[Chadwick The Beta]

Darkies and queens complain too focking much.

[SF1900]

It's a company, and when they take away people's right to choose who they want to let into their home based on their own prejudices, they'll go under.

Time for a competitor.

I never implied that it wouldn't hurt their business ventures. I just stated that since it is a private organization, that is their right. I have no stake in the outcome of their decision.

[Irongrip400]

If I saw a picture of some scrubby looking white trash or a ghetto Hebrew, I wouldn't rent my house to them. That's my choice as a home owner. That said, as business owners, airbnb can do what they please. You don't like their rules? Don't use their service.

[Thong Maniac]

If I saw a picture of some scrubby looking white trash or a ghetto Hebrew, I wouldn't rent my house to them. That's my choice as a home owner. That said, as business owners, airbnb can do what they please. You don't like their rules? Don't use their service.

all of this.

[SF1900]

If I saw a picture of some scrubby looking white trash or a ghetto Hebrew, I wouldn't rent my house to them. That's my choice as a home owner. That said, as business owners, airbnb can do what they please. You don't like their rules? Don't use their service.

Would love to rent a room in your house for a few nights. Talk about the Lincoln reward poster.

[El Diablo Blanco]

Wrong.  You enter a contract with Airbnb to rent a room. At that point it's a business deal.  If you don't like their rules then don't use their service to rent out your third room.

[calfzilla]

I don't see the appeal of airbnb. I would hate to stay at a strangers house and would hate for one to stay at mine.

[Tapeworm]

I don't see the appeal of airbnb. I would hate to stay at a strangers house and would hate for one to stay at mine.

Right on.  The best thing about hotels is the impersonal touch.  I don't want to send them a correspondence afterwards saying they have a lovely hotel.  I don't want the hotel staff to ask if they can stay at my place sometime.  I want to exchange money for a key, a bottle of scotch, and possibly some discrete sexual services with no regard for what fluids land where.  Then go to sleep, wake up, throw a few pesos on the bureau, and leave without tidying up jack shit.  

[El Diablo Blanco]

I don't see the appeal of airbnb. I would hate to stay at a strangers house and would hate for one to stay at mine.

It's a service for backpackers and vagrants.  A lot of youths that travel stay in Hostels and AirBNB is a slight step above.

[Red Hook]

I don't see the appeal of airbnb. I would hate to stay at a strangers house and would hate for one to stay at mine.

There are many remote locations where there are no "major hotels" and those smaller local hotels are on AirBnB

As more and more people avoid "generic tourist traps" they end up in places that AirBnb and  Booking.com caters to

[Yamcha]

I'd only let corn stay in my Airbnb basement

[Fortress]

Where I live, an Islamophobia hotline has been established for filthy Moozies. They can call in and complain if they feel discriminated against for worshipping a homicidal sky wizard and modelling their life after a mass-murdering-rapist-pedophile.

World's done. Stick a fork in it.

[Irongrip400]

Would love to rent a room in your house for a few nights. Talk about the Lincoln reward poster.

I'd prefer coffee and talking about the "Pearl Harbor" headline.

[Papper]

So backwards it's embarassing

It's 2016, time to drop this feminist/minority bull and come to terms with racism as a good and natural thing

These companies can go fuck themselves, people will be racist all the same

[Nails]

when i went to Europe and once in Cancun i used the site  www.homeaway.com


but they were all furnished condos  , didn't have to share them with anyone living there


it was alot cheaper than getting hotels or hostels out there

if i had to stay there and a family was living in the same house i would feel strange as shit, and uncomfortable the entire time coming in at 3am plastered from Oktoberfest , or smoking all the leftover weed i bought in Amsterdam

[FitnessFrenzy]

Umm it's your house, yours, you have every right to say who can and can't enter it for whatever reason.

not if you cooperate with Airbnb, legally speaking.

[HTexan]

While this may be the case, Airbnb is a private organization. Thus, if they feel like some people are being discriminatory, I assume they are allowed to remove hosts from their website.

Its an interesting dilemma. On the one hand, Airbnb is a private organization, so it's their right to set their own standards (as many private organizations do). On the other hand, its people's private homes and/or apartments.

this, it's like an uber driver not picking up blacks, it's not your company.