Airbnb to cancel all D.C. reservations during inauguration week

[Wicked Blue]

Washington Post
By Emily Davies

Airbnb will cancel and block all reservations in the Washington metro area during inauguration week after finding Airbnb accounts for “numerous individuals who are either associated with known hate groups or otherwise involved in the criminal activity at the Capitol Building,” the platform announced Wednesday morning.

The announcement cited Tuesday reports “regarding armed militias and known hate groups that are attempting to travel and disrupt the Inauguration” and warnings by the region’s leaders that visitors should refrain from traveling to the District over the next week.

The company said it will refund guests and reimburse hosts for canceled bookings. Airbnb has also banned from the platform all people associated with hate groups or involved in last week’s abortive insurrection at the Capitol.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/13/trump-impeachment-biden-transition-live-updates/#link-Z6HUGV27OFGDHIMLDNIJOVCON4

[NoSheep]

1. Good idea but so much for that "open society" we once had

[cbdo2007]

3. What are you talking about? There is a serious terrorist threat to the president

and all senior government officials next week. No open society is just going to let insurrectionists always rise up and win without doing any safety precautions.

[Chainfire]

2. What the right wing radicals do not understand is that last week

The forced all Americans to decide which side they are on. There aren't many fence setters, private or corporate, left. If they don't like to not be able to fly, not be able to get a hotel room, if they don't like losing their jobs, it is just tough shit. Words and actions have consequences. I don't think that they have any clue exactly what the long-term implications of their seditious actions will have, but they will learn.

[Wicked Blue]

4. +100 nt