Airbnb sues San Francisco

Airbnb sued the city of San Francisco on Monday, arguing that a recent ordinance which requires hosts to register with the city violates the online home-sharing company’s free speech rights.

It’s all about taxes.



5 thoughts on “Airbnb sues San Francisco”

  1. And paying to support a locality that protects your rights as a business. I simply can’t imagine why a neolibertarian CEO might object.

  2. It’s not just all about taxes. It is also about respecting the decisions that we have made as a polity and as communities concerning how we will be governed and regulated. This “violate rules later and demanded that the lawful governments beg forgiveness from US for violating their laws and norms” concept has to potential to destroy our entire society. (I realize a lot of glibertarians think they want that, but even Larry Niven realized that anarchy was not feasible).

  3. And taxes are a fair case. Why is it that we as a society think that we can operate without taxes?

  4. It’s a belief that has trickled down from affluent conservatives who imagine themselves as royalty, and plays well with infantilized non-affluent people who can’t do arithmetic.

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