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Airbnb bans 'party houses' after five die in Halloween shooting
Airbnb has said it will ban "party houses" after a mass shooting at a California home rented through the company left five people dead.
CEO Brian Chesky said in a tweet the company would take steps to "combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct". "We must do better, and we will. This is unacceptable," Mr Chesky added.
Three people died at the house, in the city of Orinda, near San Francisco, and two more died later in hospital. The house was reportedly booked under a pretence for a small group, before being publicised on Instagram as the venue for a Halloween party which eventually drew a crowd of more than 100 people. The host did not authorise the party, Airbnb said.
[...] Mr Chesky said Airbnb would create a dedicated "party house" rapid response team and expand manual screening of high-risk reservations. The company, which is expected to float on the stock market in 2020, would also take action against users who violated its policies, he said.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 03 2019, @08:35PM (4 children)
You're reaching for an explanation, and looking across the nation for that explanation.
What if I told you that roughly half of all counties in the US have zero murders per year? And, that roughly half of all murders in this country take place in just 2% of the counties in the US?
https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2014-zero-murders-69-1-murder/ [crimeresearch.org]
The culture you are describing is very much localized, in the most highly populated counties, and counties controlled by liberals. I won't tell you that R's are your friends, but I can most definitely tell you that the D's are most definitely NOT the black man's friends!!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @09:51PM (3 children)
Fuck off you racist twit.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @10:12PM
Race off, you fucking twitting Runawaying racist!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 03 2019, @10:48PM (1 child)
Explain how those facts are "racist". I dare say that both black and white people live in more than 90% of all the counties in the US. Probabaly really close to 100%, but I'll stick with a conservative 90%. (see what I did there?) So, in more than 40% of all counties in the US, black and white people live side by side, without killing each other. That is MORE THAN 40% of the US. It is only in the most violent of counties - counties that host large, liberal cities - that people are murdered regularly. Killings are a daily thing in those worst 2% of counties.
That doesn't look racist to me. Call me partisan, and you'll be much closer to the truth. I am anti-progressive, because every fucking thing the progressives do is WRONG! There's nothing wrong with black folk. There's everything wrong with progressives.
Let me show you again how racist progressives are - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs [youtube.com]
To paraphrase liberals, "Dem niggas is too damned STUPID to do the stuff we do!"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @07:26AM
You racist fucking cracker! Lynching is too good for you! White folks are too stupid to know they are racist!