Yet another reason to hate them...

@mathcolorstrees

TFA indicates he's not ideologically rigid. He's coming after OSHA and FEMA because they're his regulators.

Lobbyists have to be crapping themselves. They depend on regulated company -> lobbyist -> Congress -> regulatory agency. Now the CEOs are just being put directly in charge of personnel of their own agency

👉Fun fact:

Gebbia's father used to be on our city council and we banned #airbnb rentals in much of the city.

🌐fox5atlanta.com/news/city-coun…

City Council votes to ban Airbnb in parts of Brookhaven

Airbnb has been banned in many parts of the City of Brookhaven.

^{FOX 5 Atlanta}

@ananasparachute I went to delete the app and it’s already gone 💪

Thanks for sharing

I was already shunning #Airbnb for their outrageous and disingenuous response to #overtourism in #shorttermrentals and resulting housing crises in many cities and islands around the world - "the local governments should just build more housing". As if Airbnb wouldn't soak up any of the new housing, too. Any such new housing paid by local taxpayers, would be located far from peoples' work & take years to build. So… great solution!…. …Wankers!

#boycottusa #BoycottAirBNB

It's one of those "brilliant ideas" where you find a loophole to make individuals compete with companies, where the individual has less/no regulation because 'they're not a real company', therefore it's cheaper and no-one is responsible, but the "company" still makes a sh*tload of money by just having a website.

Another "privatise profits and public costs"

One of the other co-founders and active CEO of Airbnb is a staunch supporter of democrats and close enough friends with Obama to the point of operating a scholarship with him.

obama.org/programs/voyager-sch…

It's dubious where many Fortune 500 CEOs stand with regard to Trump, so Chesky's record in standing against him is especially notable. Given that, it might be worth pressuring him to speak out against, if not buy out, Gebbia's actions than to simply boycott Airbnb.

Voyager Scholarship

The Voyager Scholarship provides financial aid, travel opportunities, and connections to a network of leaders to students who want to go into public service.

^{Obama Foundation}

@LaNaehForaday Amazing! Thank you for calling. I recommend having a backup place for listing, like VRBO.

For what it’s worth I don’t know about the company’s position. The cofounder is on the board of directors and has a large portion of the company ownership (shares). So this is why I took action.