Suspension of Airbnb Operations in Russia and Belarus
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Re: Suspension of Airbnb Operations in Russia and Belarus
#2Belarus and Russian dissidents abroad, seeking a temporary housing while fleeing their oppressive governments, will be delighted by this.
Ban on Belarus users is even more ironic how quickly the world has turned on them: just a few months ago they were welcomed in many places as victims of brutal dictator Lukashenko and his purges, but now they must suffer for not succeeding in overthrowing him.
Madness.
Re: Suspension of Airbnb Operations in Russia and Belarus
#3Belarus and Russian dissidents abroad, seeking a temporary housing while fleeing their oppressive governments, will be delighted by this. Ban on Belarus users is even more ironic how quickly the world has turned on them: just a few months ago they were welcomed in many places as victims of brutal dictator Lukashenko and his purges, but now they must suffer for not succeeding in overthrowing him. Madness.
Madness indeed
Re: Suspension of Airbnb Operations in Russia and Belarus
#4Belarus and Russian dissidents abroad, seeking a temporary housing while fleeing their oppressive governments, will be delighted by this. Ban on Belarus users is even more ironic how quickly the world has turned on them: just a few months ago they were welcomed in many places as victims of brutal dictator Lukashenko and his purges, but now they must suffer for not succeeding in overthrowing him. Madness.
This doesn’t apply to anything abroad, only to Russia and Belarus.
And honestly, anything that can hurt Russia is fair at this point. Including whatever collateral damage.
Re: Suspension of Airbnb Operations in Russia and Belarus
#5Belarus and Russian dissidents abroad, seeking a temporary housing while fleeing their oppressive governments, will be delighted by this. Ban on Belarus users is even more ironic how quickly the world has turned on them: just a few months ago they were welcomed in many places as victims of brutal dictator Lukashenko and his purges, but now they must suffer for not succeeding in overthrowing him. Madness.
This doesn’t apply to anything abroad, only to Russia and Belarus. And honestly, anything that can hurt Russia is fair at this point. Including whatever collateral damage.
It does apply to everything abroad. The version of this announcement in Russian [1] is far less ambiguous, and clearly says: "Гостям из России и Беларуси больше не доступно оформление бронирований на Airbnb." (Bookings on Airbnb are no longer available to guests from Russia and Belarus). This is also corroborated by first hand accounts of people who used the service after fleeing the country.
And no, this doesn't hurt "Russia" (as in Putin's war effort), but it does a great deal of hurt to anyone protesting war.
[1]: https://www.airbnb.ru/help/article/3211/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D...
Re: Suspension of Airbnb Operations in Russia and Belarus
#6Belarus and Russian dissidents abroad, seeking a temporary housing while fleeing their oppressive governments, will be delighted by this. Ban on Belarus users is even more ironic how quickly the world has turned on them: just a few months ago they were welcomed in many places as victims of brutal dictator Lukashenko and his purges, but now they must suffer for not succeeding in overthrowing him. Madness.
Maybe this temporary houses would serve better to fleeing millions of Ucranians that, unlike Russians, had their homes destroyed
Re: Suspension of Airbnb Operations in Russia and Belarus
#7Belarus and Russian dissidents abroad, seeking a temporary housing while fleeing their oppressive governments, will be delighted by this. Ban on Belarus users is even more ironic how quickly the world has turned on them: just a few months ago they were welcomed in many places as victims of brutal dictator Lukashenko and his purges, but now they must suffer for not succeeding in overthrowing him. Madness.
Maybe this temporary houses would serve better to fleeing millions of Ucranians that, unlike Russians, had their homes destroyed
It is curious how you think that one type of victims of same regime is more deserving than the other.
Especially those Belorussians, just a few months ago they were fleeing from concentration camps, where they were tortured and raped, but now the situation is completely different, and the temporary houses they occupy would serve fleeing Ukrainian better.
Re: Suspension of Airbnb Operations in Russia and Belarus
#8Belarus and Russian dissidents abroad, seeking a temporary housing while fleeing their oppressive governments, will be delighted by this. Ban on Belarus users is even more ironic how quickly the world has turned on them: just a few months ago they were welcomed in many places as victims of brutal dictator Lukashenko and his purges, but now they must suffer for not succeeding in overthrowing him. Madness.
This doesn’t apply to anything abroad, only to Russia and Belarus. And honestly, anything that can hurt Russia is fair at this point. Including whatever collateral damage.
So the holocaust was a fair reaction to the Jewish role in bolshevism?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe this temporary houses would serve better to fleeing millions of Ucranians that, unlike Russians, had their homes destroyed
It is curious how you think that one type of victims of same regime is more deserving than the other. Especially those Belorussians, just a few months ago they were fleeing from concentration camps, where they were tortured and raped, but now the situation is completely different, and the temporary houses they occupy would serve fleeing Ukrainian better.
Renting a house is not a right. The house owners can deny the access to the resource to anybody by reasons as having an ugly pet.
But we aren't talking here about a noisy dog, we are talking about giving the keys to your home to citizens from two nations that in the last month had systematically bombed thousands of buildings, set fire and demolished millions of homes.
Have burnt-down thousands of houses like yours. After systematically ravaging them, and often after murdering all the owners (owners like you), and their entire families.
They --could-- be also really nice people but the tenant can't know it (and would be facing still a risk against their property being vandalized by a third actor, because is hosting Russians). You would be buying tickets for a lottery for housing the worse nightmarish guest in the planet. The best outcome for the tenant would be to receive a few bucks.
The worse would be renting your home to possible arsonists, looters, people that could be hiding stolen properties in your property, or even serial murderers. It just doesn't worth the trouble, specially when there is a high demand and plenty of better candidates.
What I'm trying to say is that Airbnb is not a charity. "All the customers should paid the same because moral" is not how companies work. Some customers are more expensive to the company than other. Some carry a too poor cost/benefits ratio.
Re: Suspension of Airbnb Operations in Russia and Belarus
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe this temporary houses would serve better to fleeing millions of Ucranians that, unlike Russians, had their homes destroyed
It is curious how you think that one type of victims of same regime is more deserving than the other. Especially those Belorussians, just a few months ago they were fleeing from concentration camps, where they were tortured and raped, but now the situation is completely different, and the temporary houses they occupy would serve fleeing Ukrainian better.
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