r/technology • u/Choobeen • 9h ago

Software Trump appoints Airbnb co-founder to revamp public (government) websites

https://www.dw.com/en/trump-appoints-airbnb-co-founder-to-revamp-public-websites-after-musk-doge-exit/a-73744139
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u/hikeonpast 9h ago

Fuck Joe Gebbia and his AirBnB billions.

I’m just one person, but I’m done with AirBnB until this doofus is off their board.

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u/nycdiveshack 8h ago edited 8h ago

We had the USDS to help revamp government websites and have them work seamlessly with other agencies and organizations. You know who took over that? Fucking DOGE… it’s why doge has so much access to all the federal agencies and is slated to give all the IRS/SSA data over to Palantir in September

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u/hikeonpast 8h ago

Gebbia worked for DOGE before this assignment.

Fuck Joe Gebbia.

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u/Oriin690 5h ago

That’s not why Doge has access to all that agencies. They just took a small department they didn’t care about and sort of had to do with efficiency, fired everyone and replaced them with Elon Musk and a bunch of his lackeys and heritage foundation interns. Trump gave executive orders firing and replacing everyone who protested at their illegal data access with sycophants. And when judges went “uh that’s illegal” the Supreme Court swatted them down with a mixture of totally unexplained decisions and a few batshit kangaroo court logic ones, usually backing the idea of unitary executive which to save you some time means that they think the President is King over the executive branch (and since the executive branch does basically everything is King over us all).

The original departments access is meaningless. It’s just totalitarianism and lawlessness with a gold star approval from the Supreme Court and the Republicans in control of Congress.

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u/nycdiveshack 2h ago

A good portion of the doge teams were founded by Palantir. Wired mostly did a few articles on it

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u/iamasuitama 7m ago

slated to give all the IRS/SSA data over to Palantir in September

What?? That's crazy. Source?

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u/Regular-Engineer-686 8h ago

As if I needed another reason to boycott AirBnb, but everyone should. They are a TERRIBLE company.

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u/I_am_BrokenCog 8h ago

in what way are they terrible?

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u/green_gold_purple 8h ago

They fuck over their customers and the housing market.

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u/DeadMoneyDrew 8h ago

Don't know why you're getting downvoted for asking a legitimate question. Not everybody is immersed in all of the evil stuff that companies do.

Airbnb charges outrageous fees to consumers to the point where they are no longer an economical alternative to a hotel. They also suck up housing supply which contributes to high costs of rent.

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u/fury420 7h ago

It's actually individual hosts that choose to add a cleaning fee and pet fees, not AirBnB itself.

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u/DeadMoneyDrew 5m ago

PotAYto potAHto. No difference.

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u/TechieWasteLan 7h ago

Is it airbnb themselves that sucked up housing ? Or is it that it created an incentive for people and later companies to buy up housing to put up on Airbnb?

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u/kahmeal 1h ago

It’s the same picture.

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u/Redebo 32m ago

Then why does AirBnB take all the blame? The supply wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t demand.

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u/DeadMoneyDrew 6m ago

Don't make things so complicated. That's a distinction without a difference.

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u/Regular-Engineer-686 7h ago edited 7h ago

Here’s a list:

• They significantly contribute to rising housing cost in metropolitan areas • They change the “character” of whatever neighborhood they are in by focusing on short term tourists rather than actual residents. • Their model benefits property owners and wealthy hosts, but lower-income residents and workers are forced to live further and further away from where they work as the areas become gentrified, with people don’t even live there. • For the people that actually live in the community, they are disrupted as all types of people rent AirBnb places including porn directors, sex traffickers, drug manufacturers, etc… not to mention just the people that come in every week to have a parties disrupting the neighborhood. • It also sucks for their users. There’s no safety protocols. Hidden cameras in bathrooms and bedrooms have been found, including ones in the bedrooms meant for children.

You should do a little googling. They are terrible. I’ve used them in the past when I didn’t know any better. If you’re using them, please stop.

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u/Unlucky-Meaning-4956 7h ago

In all of them

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u/sinh1921 4h ago

It’s not just off the board. He will still continue to make money forever off AirBnB. AirBnB has been a net negative on communities, the housing industry, and hotel industry. Maids make less money and chances for employment as hotels have been hurt. It’s time we stop supporting these companies like they do ANY fucking good. They find ways to make really good ideas the absolute worst for everyone so they can make billions. I guess it’s not their fault because there’s basically 0 regulation but it’s not like they care. They’ll do anything to make their billions

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u/Impossible-Year-5924 2h ago

If you need a rule to tell you to not be a bad person, you are in fact probably a bad person.

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u/elguntor 52m ago

I’m done with AirBNB forever. I don’t support pedophile fascists ever, even when they are off the board.

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u/CinnamonMoney 8h ago

He stepped down already

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u/hikeonpast 8h ago edited 8h ago

He’s still on the Board of Directors

Edit: Proof: https://investors.airbnb.com/governance/default.aspx

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u/CinnamonMoney 8h ago

Dammit mane, i got hoodwinked by not knowing the difference between their charitable arm and their business website

Thanks