In the four year since it apply an agreement to encourage equitable treatment of its users , Airbnb claims that 1.4 million individuals have been barricade from the political program because they declined to refuse bigotry . In an e-mail to Gizmodo , a spokesperson confirmed that this is the number people who were ask to snap “ swallow ” on a simple non - discrimination agreement , or else clicked “ turn down , ” and decide to antedate the habit of the platform .
In 2016 , Airbnb put through a abbreviated “ community consignment ” that all survive users would have to okay in guild to continue making booking or to set up a new account . It ’s apretty simple ask :
I agree to treat everyone in the Airbnb community — disregarding of their race , religion , interior parentage , ethnicity , impairment , sex , sex personal identity , sexual orientation , or years — with regard , and without judgment or preconception .
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By agreeing to the community commitment , users — and most importantly , hosts — also must watch over thenondiscrimination policywhich enumerates prohibited act . To name a few , the policy states hosts can not : decline booking or provide different hospitality conditions based on the aforesaid classes ; carry intimidate argument ; or turn down to accommodate mobility machine or service beast .
smuggled guests have sharedcountless instancesof being deny bookings found on their avatar , sparking the # AirbnbWhileBlack hashtag andmultiplelawsuits . A pro - Trump hostrefused a reservation requestbecause the guest was Asian . Anotherdenied lodgingto a trans woman who purportedly made them “ uncomfortable . ” North Africans have been turned away byFrench hosts . Chinese hosts haveopenly refusedrequests from Uyghurs and Tibetans . The list goes on .
Airbnb was unable to offer metrics on the localisation of the 1.4 million pro - discrimination user , or on how many users it has banned for concord to the residential area commitment but acting in ways that function counter to it .
Victims have often criticized Airbnb for its disinclination to play until after it ’s staring down the bad kind of media attention . After waves of public complaints , the political platform has adjusted policy ; in 2018 , it begin hiding profile photoswhich are now seeable only afterbookings are substantiate . It ’s currently working on aresearch projectwith civic rights organizations , to inform future policy . But for now , that remain vague .
Airbnb has additionally committed to unambiguously deplatforming have it off and suspected penis of hate group : itpreemptedUnite the Right attendee from booking in 2017 , and those of the 2018Unite the Right sequel , and of a 2019neo - national socialist summit . The company also told Gizmodolast yearthat it banned over 60 users identify as members of the defunct neo - Nazi forum Iron March . The topic get up again this hebdomad when a Twitter user flagged a screenshot from an so-called Proud Boy claiming to have booked an Airbnb for this weekend ’s Million MAGA March , and Airbnbquickly cancelledthe engagement ( and banned the individual in question . )
1.4 million ego - certified bigots might not be missed , but its a considerable turn of paying customers for a troupe to turn away , especially when gear up foran IPO . While an Airbnb spokesperson was not able-bodied to confirm the bit of current active Airbnb drug user , the companysaysthat it hosts seven million rentals worldwide .
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