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.
#224: Disruptive Innovation (Part 1)
#223: Law Enforcement as a Political Weapon
#222: Bring in the Nerds: Reviving the Office of Technology Assessment
#221: Swarm’s Rogue Satellites
#220: FDA, Free Speech and E-Cigarettes
#219: Women in Tech
#218: How Should Congress Address Online Sex Trafficking?
#217: What is Cybersecurity, and How Can it Affect the Winter Olympics?
#216: The Nunes Memo and FISA Explained
#215: The Net Neutrality CRA: Yay or Nay?
#214: Information Intermediaries in a Nutshell
#213: Heat Baby Heat? Harm Reduction and E-Cigarettes
#212: Department of Labor Saves Gig Economy
#211: Warrantless Spying & Parallel Construction
#210: Watching the Watchmen: Surveillance in 2017 ... and Beyond
#209: Restoring Internet Freedom? Feat. Brendan Carr, FCC Commissioner
#208: Data Danger: Keeping Information Safe Online
#207: Carving Out Privacy Rights: Carpenter v US
#206: The Future of Internet Regulation w/ FCC Chairman Ajit Pai
#205: Who Owns the Airwaves?
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