It's a one to one transaction and very hard to prove.

Race isnt specified and many user profiles obscure the face. Instabook books automatically without host approval.

And then after the host finds out who it is, magically that date is "unavailable".

You get dinged HARD for canceling as a host.

> AirBnB is the perfect company to use to talk about it. In general, racial discrimination in rentals is a historic problem. If AirBnB wants to be the platform for "rentals of the future" they are going to have to be responsible for the degree to which they enable discrimination.

You realize the "it" in your sentence is "arbitration", while the rest of what you wrote is about "discrimination"?

Your sentence is a perfect example of why Airbnb is exactly the wrong company to use to talk about arbitration.

(This article is about arbitration. I'm not implying people shouldn't talk about discrimination, just that the headline is quite misleading.)

It may not have been clear in what I wrote above, but arbitration relates to systematic violations precisely because arbitration prevents pursuing class action suits. It is in that regard that AirBnB is relevant.