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Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
When the dust settled on the hotly-contested battle in San Francisco for increasing regulations for home-sharing sites like Airbnb, the multi-billion dollar corporation and its cohorts ultimately won out. But that doesn’t mean that Airbnb has come out of the fight on top. The citizens of San Francisco, although voting to allow Airbnb to run as it is now, expressed disgust and dissatisfaction with the company’s tactics. Condescending billboards reminding citizens that it finally caught up on the $12 million in hotel taxes that it had owed to the city, and the news that it had spent $8 million to…
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