I think we ought to be very careful putting Uber and Airbnb in the same boat as, say, gun control and malaria. They are websites that make an existing market more efficient by directly connecting two parties, but they are basically EBay: a platform for two parties to exchange services all parties opted into and agree they need.<p>They are not developing policy solutions and they are certainly not trying to connect multiple parties who do not even agree that problems exist or may even be actively hostile to solutions because they stand to gain from said problems.