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Craigslist Sued For Violating Fair Housing Laws

Posted by Zonk on from the not-good-form dept.

The Good Reverend writes "The Associated Press has a report today about online classified site CraigsList being accused in a federal lawsuit of violating fair housing laws by publishing discriminatory classified ads. Current law, which applies to newspapers, prohibits ads that discriminate on the basis of race, gender, family status, religion, all of which can be found on Craigslist."

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  1. From TFA by monkaduck · · Score: 0, Troll

    From TFA:

    The lawsuit seeks, among other things, to require Craigslist to report to the government any individual seeking to post a discriminatory ad and to develop screening software to preclude discriminatory ads from being published on its Web site.

    Does this mean that the lawsuit is less about making universal off and onling rules, or to report "potential threats" to Bush and Co.?

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  2. Morality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "From a moral standpoint, of course, people will expect that if you're going to run a site like that you ought to police it,"

    Uhm...WHY? If I don't want to share a room with a jungle bunny lipped, wetback smelling, honkey motherfucker, why can I not say this when looking for a rentor of *MY PROPERTY*?

    #1 Freedom of speech
    #2 Freedom of press
    #3 The right to (dis)associate

    Those are 3 points of morality, obviously left by the wayside!

  3. Re:The Actual postings... by rjshields · · Score: 0, Troll
    That guy has a one way ticket to hell.
    Well he's certainly making a mockery of religion so you have to give him credit for that. As for going to hell, we all know there's no such place as heaven or hell. You don't seriously believe that nonsense do you?
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