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New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos (www.wired.com)

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New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos::People are listing short-term rentals on social media and lesser-known platforms, bolstering a rental black market in New York City.

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[–] [email protected] 276 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Make sure you keep in mind that Conde Nast (the parent company of Wired) has subsidiary companies running articles like "35 Best Airbnbs Near New York City, From Cozy Cabins in the Catskills to Beachy Houses in the Hamptons"[1]. They likely have indirect or direct financial ties to AirBnB.

So this article that is seemingly trying to present an argument that this regulation isn't working because a black market has emerged, while giving more space in the article to small landlords and AirBnB's CEO and their defence than to critics of AirBnB, as well as mentioning hotel prices rising but not how AirBnB has caused rental prices to rise... should give you pause about the bias this article is trying to hide.

[1] https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best-airbnbs-near-new-york-city

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Conde Nast ruined Wired.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They also own reddit.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And Ars Techina...

They own a shit ton of media and I've never seen a positive improvement after they took something over.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

None of these companies want to improve anything other than quarterly profits and will take whatever shitty action to get there

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the big tipoff that Conde owns a website is they post a lot of "great deals for ____!" posts.

Because they all use affiliate links.

And a lot less actual reviews of products because those have to be written. So you end up with a giant page full of links to a 100 products with maybe a sentence for each link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

News companies switched to affiliate links from ads. Even The New York Times made the switch. Google, Facebook, and Craigslist are their lunch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a Mediaopoly!

Aired only once, then hidden in the extras of the DVD release btw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

I figured as much. Without an open and easy to advertise platform to rent out spaces, people are going back to how it used to be...

It's an alarmist article. Much ado about nothing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Great catch

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

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