I just don’t follow this as it relates to that AirBNB tragedy. I grew up in the Northeast. I knew many people who either owned and rented out, or leased for vacation use homes in places like Provincetown, MA, and Rockaway Beach, NY. This has never been regulated. Why does that become different because people list their places on AirBNB?

As I understand the case being made against Uber, there suggestion is that Uber essentially dispatches people as taxi drivers who would not otherwise be working as taxi drivers, and controls their work. No so with AirBNB, which is closer to an ad in the paper or a listing on a billboard than to a hotelier.