Update on the Craigslist Lawsuit

Here's an update from my Craigslist post yesterday from Craig Newmark's blog:

"Folks, some more info on the lawsuit filed against us in Chicago, including info that most reports are missing:

• craigslist and craigslist users have an exemplary record for abiding by fair housing law, and promoting equal opportunity housing for everyone
• we're being sued for an extremely small number of postings by a few of our users, in many cases for phrases like "near a church" or "there's a kosher deli around the corner"
• the number of actual discriminatory ads is honestly like one or two out of every 100,000 -- what publication has a better record than that?
• we make it really easy for the community to help us out by removing such ads, and housing advocates normally really like our system
• we exercise NO EDITORIAL CONTROL over listings
• Federal law explicitly releases us from liability regarding this
• a much stronger suit of this kind involving roommates.com was recently dismissed as baseless

Folks, PLEASE HELP US OUT and keep flagging bad stuff of any kind."

I believe that Craigslist will survive this; it's a community and the community has really done a stellar job of policing itself, but there's always a few kids who ruin it for the whole class.

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