They are a private outfit and can do what they want, and a Conservative position supports that right.
However, can you imagine how the heads of Airbnb would react in every social media venue they could find, if some private outfit was doing the same thing to thwart a Leftist organized “protest rally”? Airbnb would not be supporting that private outfits right to do that, they’d be protesting it and demanding they not do it. To anyone on the Left, Liberty is for them, not for everyone.
I am not sure that they can. They are a platform that allows members to rent their properties. Now they think they can refuse to rent to people for reasons they only guess may be true.
IOW, airbnb doesn’t own the properties they are withdrawing. We’re I an owner who thought my property had been rented, I’d be highly p-oed.
The problem is the unfair double standard. Where liberal companies deny service to conservatives and the public and courts say that’s OK, that’s freedom of speech and association.
Conservatives deny service, they are sued and threatened, whether as hate speech, hate crimes, violations of civil rights legislation.
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission had the record in one week of saying a Christian had to provide service to homosexuals because of civil rights rules, but the homosexual could deny service to Christians per his freedom of association. And they don’t see a double standard because some groups are higher in the social justice moral hierarchy.