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http://www.startribune.com/local/south/11545261.html
(KO was a friend of mine, and I find all this grandstanding offensive. It's not going to prevent murder, and it certainly won't prevent prostitution.)
Another victory in the war on consenting adults choosing what to do, with whom to do it, and the terms upon which they do it with each other! What surprises me when I read this stuff from my comfortable perch in Canada, is how schizophrenic America can appear to the outside world. On the one hand, there's a fierce independence from government, a belief in making your own choices and not allowing the government to med…
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That paragraph of the article was completely irrelevant: Adult Services was never part of whatever Craigslist considers its "business plan." Craigslist doesn't try, in any way, shape, or form, to optimize for profit in the way a publicly-traded company would. Disregarding the fact that running a single ad on each page would make them ridiculous amounts of money, they're not even charging for ads in any but a few cate…
I don't see how a loss of tens of millions in revenue qualifies as "irrelevant". Even if it wasn't part of their business plan, it is money lost.
Another victory in the war on consenting adults choosing what to do, with whom to do it, and the terms upon which they do it with each other! What surprises me when I read this stuff from my comfortable perch in Canada, is how schizophrenic America can appear to the outside world. On the one hand, there's a fierce independence from government, a belief in making your own choices and not allowing the government to med…
I don't agree with this assessment at all . I know myself not to be the only person on HN with this take on the situation. But I would rather bite down on a live, wriggling cockroach than debate it on HN. If you posted this comment because you wanted to hear the contrary take on this, feel free to email me. If you posted for some other reason, feel free to ignore.
Another victory in the war on consenting adults choosing what to do, with whom to do it, and the terms upon which they do it with each other! What surprises me when I read this stuff from my comfortable perch in Canada, is how schizophrenic America can appear to the outside world. On the one hand, there's a fierce independence from government, a belief in making your own choices and not allowing the government to med…
I don't agree with this assessment at all . I know myself not to be the only person on HN with this take on the situation. But I would rather bite down on a live, wriggling cockroach than debate it on HN. If you posted this comment because you wanted to hear the contrary take on this, feel free to email me. If you posted for some other reason, feel free to ignore.
My observation is that the image or brand presented to the outside world is contradictory, not that there's anything amiss in how you choose to govern yourselves.
Worldwide prostitution has ended! (/sarcasm) Thank you to all the politicians who lobbied to make it possible for human traffickers to move further into the recesses of the web, allowing them to continue advertising in other print and net classifieds without Craigslist's continued cooperation with the authorities.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't agree with this assessment at all . I know myself not to be the only person on HN with this take on the situation. But I would rather bite down on a live, wriggling cockroach than debate it on HN. If you posted this comment because you wanted to hear the contrary take on this, feel free to email me. If you posted for some other reason, feel free to ignore.
No need to debate. I'm perfectly aware that real life is far too complex to boil down to simple slogans like "Government should be big/small" or "People should/shouldn't have the right to _____." My observation is that the image or brand presented to the outside world is contradictory, not that there's anything amiss in how you choose to govern yourselves.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That paragraph of the article was completely irrelevant: Adult Services was never part of whatever Craigslist considers its "business plan." Craigslist doesn't try, in any way, shape, or form, to optimize for profit in the way a publicly-traded company would. Disregarding the fact that running a single ad on each page would make them ridiculous amounts of money, they're not even charging for ads in any but a few cate…
I don't see how a loss of tens of millions in revenue qualifies as "irrelevant". Even if it wasn't part of their business plan, it is money lost.
Suppose that $100M/year had been going into Craig Newmark's bank account and he had been contributing that money to charity on a regular basis.
Reducing that $100M to $30M would be irrelevant as far as Craigslist-the-company is concerned even though it would be a big hit to the charities.
Craigslist is believed to be owned by a couple of people plus EBay's 25%, so the above scenario is possible.
Another victory in the war on consenting adults choosing what to do, with whom to do it, and the terms upon which they do it with each other! What surprises me when I read this stuff from my comfortable perch in Canada, is how schizophrenic America can appear to the outside world. On the one hand, there's a fierce independence from government, a belief in making your own choices and not allowing the government to med…
why put the blame in CL? people should be responsible wherever they are and not point their fingers to someone else's when something goes wrong.