Thank you all! I am incredibly grateful to the HN community, I am finally getting in touch with a real person at Stripe who can hopefully rectify this situation.
I knew Fahim personally. I know people who spoke to him the day of about this very issue, so I have some information that most people don't. I absolutely do not believe this kid did it.
Fahim was well liked in Nigeria but he was disrupting a dangerous market.
If the hotel industry ever got its act together, they could really use this for a great marketing push.
Advertise the fact that AirBnB lets racial discrimination go unabated, unlike the hotel industry which is regulated for this. Younger, more liberal minded individuals will be less likely to use AirBnBs.
Weird how a company can experience NEGATIVE growth for something like browsers and search