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Comment on Airbnb allowing host to place cameras in the room where I would be sleeping

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"And all my requests for discovery were denied and the hearing happened the next day. I was NOT prepared to move forward with basically nothing..."
"We had already played recordings of me crying with customer service (embarrassing) and in order to "prove" that I was impacted by this I had to submit anxiety medications my doctor had prescribed me that I was then cross-examined on (double embarrassing)."
They claimed they had no record of a meeting I know occurred because my friend was there but I wasn't willing to sell out my friend to "prove" it (the judge wanted to see the email I had - wasn't going to do that.)
the hearing itself got super bogged down into the weeds of whether I had PROOF that there was a camera (reminder, I didn't because the first customer service rep told me that the hosts' acknowledgment that there was one wasn't enough).

Let's just all agree to shut down AirBnB shall we?

They provide a service that is hard to come by: hosting anywhere.

Innkeeping is not exactly new.

Their innovations so far seem to be mostly around liability reduction and zoning law evasion. They're like a tobacco company at this stage, let's admit it.

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