Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC
Airbnb&#x27;s response: &quot;A majority of New Yorkers have embraced home sharing, and we will continue to fight for a smart policy solution that works for the the people, not the powerful.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d be more interested in knowing how New Yorkers feel about regulating short term apartment rentals than how they feel about sharing.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m guilty of being a broken record if airbnb keeps misusing the word &quot;sharing.&quot;  Although I understand there can be some ambiguity in the word &quot;sharing&quot;, the arrangement &quot;you may rent my apartment out for a week if and only if you pay me $1,000&quot; isn&#x27;t anywhere close to this zone of ambiguity.<p>It is commerce.  It is unambiguously commerce, it is a pure quid pro quo money for services transaction.<p>New York has passed legislation regulating commerce - in this case, the conditions under which someone may rent out property for under 30 days.  Those laws aren&#x27;t obsolete just because someone wrote a rails app where you can type in an address and click a &quot;create hotel here&quot; button.  Also, commerce doesn&#x27;t become sharing just because the quid pro quo financial transactions take place over the web.