Hacker News Reader

Have you any links for this? Those sound like pretty big accusations to be making without citations.

If there were links, wouldn't that disprove his point?

I don't see what users would have to gain in not going to the police and reporting these crimes. Unless he's implying airbnb is buying their silence

A victim host might be violating the terms of the lease by subletting their apartment, or could be violating local zoning or hotel permitting laws.

And how much is their lease that paying the penalty is worth having their entire apartment trashed, their identity stolen, etc., etc?

No links. Just first hand stories from people I trust.

so this kind of abuse has happened so frequently that multiple people you know and trust are able to give first hand stories.

That is shocking.

If it's true.