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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @09:46PM (1 child)
Liberia was just one of many failed attempts to get rid of the darkies [wikipedia.org].
That's not equality of opportunity. That's just another way to discriminate against other humans for no good reason.
There's plenty of institutional and individual (like yours) bigotry still in this country. And you're part of the problem.
Stop demonizing my fellow Americans just for the melanin content in their skin. It just shows you to be bigoted, ignorant and closed minded.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @03:44AM
So let me get this straight. Giving people tens of thousands of acres of lush land, complete and absolute self governance and sovereignty, billions of dollars, and then persisting this for centuries... is discrimination?
Oh boy. I've always been extremely liberal. I voted for Obama in 2008. But man, I have no idea what happened to liberalism in the US. Stuff like this is pushing me closer to being another orange man vote. Probably why he's up in the polls following the decision to go for impeachment.