Airbnb CEO to Tech Platform Peers: Clean Up Your Own Content or the Government Will

With federal efforts under way to rescind certain content liability protections for internet platforms, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said the tech industry can embrace the future — or have it force-fed. "We can either walk into the future or get pulled into the future," Chesky told CNBC's Deirdre Bosa in an interview Monday. "But the old world is over. And I think this is something that goes way beyond any one platform. It’s an industry thing." From Airbnb to Tripadvisor, Yelp, and Facebook, tech platforms have come under fire for evading many liability lawsuits over their content because of the Section 230 provisions of the Communications Decency Act. Airbnb has been criticized over the years for not doing enough to combat