Craigs' List

[HarleyDog]

(03-24-2018, 07:13 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: The reason CL shut down the personals is due to a new law that could open them to lawsuits or litigation.  The new law states that a website can be held accountable if third party user(s) post advertisements that involve illegal sex trafficking/prostitution.  Prior to this new law, Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act stated websites were given some degree of protection from liability due to third party user created content/posts. The new law changes that and can open them and other similar sites up to liability and litigation.

My experiences with CL have been both good and bad.  I've sold a couple of cars years ago in person via CL advertisements and that went well.  However, CL is also a haven for scammers and spammers.  There are a lot of shady people that stalk CL looking to take advantage of people.  I posted some furniture for sale not long ago and most of the replies I got were the,  "Let me send you money order to hold item for me.  Money order will be more than you ask but only way I can pay.  Please subtract cost and wire back extra money. I will then send to pick up item when I get wire from you."

Also despite their .org extension CL is a for-profit company.

Friggen scammers suck. Most are from overseas - but we have our fair share of douche-bags right here in the good old USA. Reminds me of an episode of 2nd date update on K99.1FM where a guy had a nice car and home but begged for money during the day and considered that his full time job because it isn't easy standing for hours. WTF? Stand behind a machine or a counter and earn it and stop playing on sympathy from others who bust their ass to put food on their own table. Not sure why I went on this tirade, I just hate thief's!