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Airbnb cancels all D.C. bookings for inauguration

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Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Recode’s Rani Molla explains how the company is making it harder for insurrectionists and militias to attend Biden’s inauguration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:13.5

accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the

0:17.2

innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know

0:21.9

what she did was wrong.

0:24.0

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0:26.3

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0:31.6

The great. The Great De Platforming of 2021 continued this week as yet another big tech company responded

0:41.2

to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

0:43.0

AirB&B announced that the company would be cancelling all bookings in the Washington, D.C. area

0:48.5

during inauguration week.

0:50.5

Recodes, Ronnie Molos, here to talk about, hey Ronnie. Hey, Teddy. So this is pretty

0:54.9

surprising. Tell me why Airbnb felt the need to do this. So I think Airbnb was

1:01.1

hearing from a lot of its hosts last week during the

1:05.0

stormy of the capital a lot of the insurgents were staying at Airbnb's. You had a

1:09.3

lot of residents in DC all of a sudden seeing proud boys and armed militia people staying in their neighborhood and you know it turned out later that they were involved in the storming of the capital.

1:20.0

So as a result, Airbnb was like you, it's probably a good idea to put the

1:24.7

gabash on anyone staying in Airbnb's in DC for the week of the

1:29.0

inauguration. Right, the mayor Muriel Bowser right asked for folks not to come to DC for the inauguration.

1:34.8

So this fits with that.

1:36.0

Right, you already have government officials saying there's the possibility of violence.

1:40.0

And then, you know, we're also in the middle of a pandemic when people probably shouldn't be traveling that much anyway.

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