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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by spaceflunky on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:28PM (#12456975)
Screening guests =/= racism

I, personally, am not arguing that discrimination isn't wrong (though some other threads have clarified the actual legality). I'm just saying that the methods Airbnb has chosen to prevent said discrimination also make it impossible for me to host and those methods are shaky at best.

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by URSpider94 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:11PM (#12458974)
It may not be racism, but it's certainly discrimination, in the sense that you are selecting who gets to conduct business with you based upon subjective criteria.
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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by dmichulke on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:49AM (#12459885)
Whenever you

- book a flight,

- buy bread or milk, or

- get a girl friend

you discrimate in favor of one and against all others.

Subjective discrimination is the only way to choose, discrimination is the sure consequence of your every choice.

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by greenleafjacob on Friday September 09, 2016 @05:33AM (#12460668)
What you are talking about is as far away from AirBNB as selling call options on AAPL on NASDAQ is to selling an iPhone on craigslist.
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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by st3v3r on Friday September 09, 2016 @12:59PM (#12464032)
Airbnb has not done anything to make it impossible for you to host.
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