I don't know if this does a lot of good for Airbnb, aside from good publicity. Hate groups will go underground. They will still use Airbnb, but they'll hide their activities more.
All I see on facebook these days are apologists and racists as the top comment on any news site. I see them on my twitter feed. I even see them in dating apps. Nobody wants them there, as they usually encourage a long chain of comments expressing the fact that they're unwelcome. Sometimes one or two are flagged and banned. A week later, another little network is built up again and the loud and extreme few are handed a megaphone. We need better filtering algorithms for this nonsense that operate on a macro level. You can call it censorship if you want. I'm not saying to make it impossible for them to communicate their message, they just should be relegated to doing so from one account at a time.
This didn't work out so well, http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/11/17/twitter_i...
This effort is half hearted at best, disorganized in practice https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-safety/controversial...
It's been vigilantes doxxing that have had the largest impact, however what they do is illegal and against the terms of service of the apps they're trying to rid of hateful speech. http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.806719
I would love to see more tech leaders actually build intelligent solutions to weeding out hatespeech on the internet.
Let them go underground, that's where they belong.
I want white supremacism die out, not white supremacist people themselves. I want their voice in the public dialogue. I want white supremacists to bring their ideology into the public sphere so that it can be visibly argued against. I want white supremacists to experience a change of heart.
Actually, ... yes. White supremacy used to be the norm. Slavery, lynch mobs, KKK, etc. all were considered normal. "To Kill a Mockingbird" was a book that talked about how normal such attitudes were (and still are in parts of the South)
White supremacy has been denormalized and it is dying says that continued denormalization does work.
In Durham, NC a confederate statue was pulled down. In the video, white people were seen abusing it. White people. That is what denormalization looks like.
Extremist views are hard to fight when they are safely hidden away. Like any infection, it's best to expose them to the light of day. It's more effective to point and laugh than to throw projectiles and yell. (Had that strategy been employed in 1923, there would have been no Mein Kampf.)
How fascism was covered by the media http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-journalists-covere...
The myth of political correctness https://thinkprogress.org/the-phony-debate-about-political-c...
What normalization looks like today https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-mun...
It doesn't gain them support. Putting their views in the spotlight demonstrates what sort of people they are, and helps combat them.
For example, the far-right British National Party had two seats in the European parliament from 2009-2014, but it didn't do them any good.