HomeAway, Airbnb, and other short-term rental platforms are at war with cities across the country. Nashville’s Downtown has the highest hotel rate in the U.S. — even pricier than New York and San Francisco. Despite that, the city council passed a law capping the number of second homes in a neighborhood that can be rented out to tourists. In a lawsuit brought by the Beacon Center, a local think tank, the judge ruled against the city but left the door open for lawmakers to rewrite the bill. Will litigation drag on, or will the Tennessee state government step in and nullify city laws? Elsewhere, in Colorado, a patchwork of regulations illustrates the different approaches that cities are taking. Jared Meyer, Senior Research Fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability, joins. For more, see his op-ed.
#124: Suing a Website
#123: Flytenow and Plane-sharing
#122: Saving Local News
#121: An Uber Bailout For Taxis
#120: From 4G to 5G
#119: FCC Loses on Government Broadband
#118: Subsidizing Uber
#117: FBI Spying on Journalists
#116: Digital Free Speech Part 2 with FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman
#115: Brexit and Tech
#114: The Internet of Cars
#113: Wikipedia for Data
#112: Verizon Shifts on Business Broadband
#111: FDA Cracks Down on E-Cigs
#110: TechFreedom Appeals FCC Power Grab
#109: Small Business and the Internet
#108: Microsoft Beats Justice Department in Ireland
#107: Digital Free Speech (w/ FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman)
#106: GOP Tech Platform: The Good, Bad, the Vague
#105: GOP Platform: Who Governs the Internet?
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