Wow if I could give +1s on this website I would do so.  I&#x27;ve seen a lot of that way of arguing -- for example people yelling about &quot;states rights!&quot; and then passing laws in Texas that forbid local cities from making minimum wage laws.  Why aren&#x27;t they yelling about &quot;city rights!&quot;  Obviously because it doesn&#x27;t fit their agenda.<p>In this case I&#x27;m not sure how anyone could defend the homeowner or AirBnB when the house had a picture of the swing on the website.  Granted AirBnB isn&#x27;t filtering those pictures looking for potential problems (hrm, image recognition problem here that could be interesting) but the owner sure could have if he&#x2F;she were trained or asked to do so.  Right now they aren&#x27;t -- it is just a &quot;host your home for free and get people to give you money&quot; without thinking about the consequences.<p>I can see why the homeowner might not have all the insurance or knowledged needed to make it a safe(r) place.  That&#x27;s why they are homeowners and not hotel or apartment owners -- they aren&#x27;t that sophisticated.  But is it right for AirBnB  to profit off of that?