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Originally Posted by jackknoff
craigslist was no worse than your local classifieds. That shit got blown way out of proportion.
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I think the issue was the adult ads weren't being precreened and instead of using creative language like you would see in the back pages you had posts that pretty much spelled it out. Everything in classifieds is pre-screened and edited before going to print, so you don't run into the same issues.
A printed publication isn't going to run an ad where a girl states she's under 18 and looking to exchange $$ for sex, where as CL would post the ad and only pull the content if they received user complaints. The process of post going live, report being filed by user, CL employees researching and pulling content exposed the company to alot of risk that IMO could have been somewhat avoided.