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> I agree to treat everyone in the Airbnb community—regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age—with respect, and without judgment or bias.

This isn't really "non discrimination", this is a vague non binding statement. The FAQ doesn't even says what happens when that "commitment" is broken. Just that you have to accept it. So the title here is misleading.




"I agree to the terms and conditions."


Did you just not read two paragraphs below that where it says "What if I decline the commitment?", or do you just think it's pertinent for some reason?

Seems pretty clear: You can't discriminate, if you do we terminate your account at our discretion.

Edit: I read the question only in the narrow sense of "what if you refuse to accept the new policy" v.s. "what if you break the policy once you accept it?".

The answer to the latter seems to be:

1. You have to agree to Airbnb's TOS to use their site: https://www.airbnb.com/terms

2. Section 24.C ("Termination for breach, suspension and other measures") refers to section 14 ("User Conduct") which says you can't violate the "Policies and Community Guidelines" which links to https://www.airbnb.com/help/topic/250/terms---policies

3. That links to their nondiscrimination policy (https://www.airbnb.com/help/topic/533/nondiscrimination), which seems to be the longer legalese version of what the linked blogpost is a tl;dr of.


> "What if I decline the commitment?",

It doesn't explain what happens if one accepts the commitment and still discriminates.

> Seems pretty clear: You can't discriminate, if you do we terminate your account at our discretion.

That's not what the text says. The text basically says :

"If you don't answer Yes to the commitment, we will terminates your account".

It doesn't say

"if you actually do discriminate we will terminates your account"

Seems pretty clear what that FAQ doesn't say. It says nothing about what Airbnb will do if an host or guest discriminates.


It would be quite nice to see how they intend to prove that a host discriminated.


Since they can unilaterally suspend accounts for any or no reason already, I don't expect they think they need to prove anything.


Sure they can, but do they though? Possibly on rare occasions but no noteworthy cases spring to mind.


That's what happens if you decline the commitment. But what if you break the commitment? (That is, accept the commitment but discriminate anyway). I'll bet nothing at all, unless an egregious incident starts trending on social media.


No, that's not clear.

What's clear is that if you press "no" on the popup, they'll terminate your account.

What will happen if you press "yes" and then continue to discriminate however you like? My guess: not much.




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