Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her

Re:Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her by e_i_pi_2 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:06PM (#34714115)

Oversee and regulate in general, I'd go a step further and say once the private market discovers something like this we should have some part of the government develop a public alternative - that would solve a lot of the issues we're seeing with social media and companies like this by making them publicly owned and controlled

I think the big issue with deplatforming is that these companies generally have a monopoly in some way, so we need a viable alternative or they need to be publicly owned

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Re:Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her by knewter on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:32PM (#34729924)

I don't believe a government-run AOL is likely to produce more benefit than the web Cambrian explosion. This proposal would lead to government blessings making things like AOL too big to fail.

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Re:Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her by e_i_pi_2 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:41PM (#34826784)

I'm more saying we'd let the private market do it's thing, but then once we realize there's some core needs - search, basic social media, forums, etc - then we can make a public alternative that's free to access and run by the people instead of a private company that has to prioritize profits

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Re:Airbnb banned her parents for being related to her by knewter on Sunday February 19, 2023 @11:12AM (#34858784)

I anticipated that was what you meant, and believe it would have a horrific outcome. AOL, but run like the DMV.

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