Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco (cnn.com)

Robert Mclean, reporting for CNN:Airbnb is taking its hometown to federal court. The company has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco, objecting to short-term rental rule changes approved by its Board of Supervisors. A new ordinance set to take effect in late July would require all Airbnb hosts to register with the city. If they do not, Airbnb would be fined up to $1,000 a day for each listing, putting the burden on the company to make sure each listing is legal. But the city's $50 registration process is analog enough to turn off many hosts. It can't be completed online and requires submitting all the documents in person. Airbnb contends the new rule violates the Communications Decency Act, Stored Communications Act and the First Amendment.

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Why?

[penguinoid]

How about instead, San Francisco politicians pay a $50 registration fee which includes an IQ and ethics test?

Re:Please, it's Frivilous Regulation

[DarkOx]

rather has to wait until numerous people have suffered for the lack of it. You're also calling for metrics that don't really exist.

Well yes and the SCOTUS essentially ruled yesterday that Texas can't impose safety regulations on abortion providers because abortion is 'right' (disagree personally) and the procedure appears to be to safe (which is funny because its about the only medical procedure I am aware that is almost universally fatal). So the states interest in ensuring safety does not offer a reason for regulation and imposes an undue burden.

Well okay, by that logic you can't regulate anything (remember the 9th and 10th Amendments now we have rights to do essentially anything until its taken away) until there is A proof that it poses some actual harm in practice to an explicitly stated interest of the government, and your proposed regulation must be demonstrably useful in accomplishing that interest.

So before SF can do this it must:
1) Explain what its trying to accomplish
2) Explain how its objectives are not presently being met
3) Explain how the proposed regulation will meet such objects and provide evidence of their efficacy

So yes lets apply this standard everywhere, best ruling ever as far as limiting the role government is potentially concerned, when used broadly.