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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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[-] honey_im_meat_grinding 271 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Conde Nast ruined Wired.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

They also own reddit.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

And Ars Techina...

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

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] LostMyRedditLogin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It's a Mediaopoly!

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

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[-] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year 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.

[-] AnyProgressIsGood@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Great catch

[-] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 year ago

The headline is alarmist nonsense that is absolutely not supported by the facts presented. There are no numbers given for how many rentals are being listed on alternate sources. The numbers for listings marked as exempt on AirBNB certainly suggest that the ban is working exactly as intended. Yes, hotel prices will go up, obviously. That's not something that anyone is surprised to hear. The rest is just anecdote presented as data. There's no "chaos" here, just life being life.

[-] Tosti@feddit.nl 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hell, just book the suites and dont pay. If they have an issue, they can get into contact with new yorks regulatory body.

[-] skymtf 59 points 1 year ago

It's so funny watching skumlords scramble!

[-] klingelstreich@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

It is paywalled

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

You can pretty much put any article into archive.ph and it gets past the paywalls.

Go to: http://archive.ph

Paste in the url: https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-ban-new-york-illegal-listings/

Hit “save” and get: https://archive.ph/ship1

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