Craigslist is not a public place to begin with, it is a private site.
If it's a public place you cannot be kicked out by anyone but the government in the first place. Nobody but the police would be allowed to put those barriers in the street to begin with.
Someone who owns a mansion, however, can put up fences and prosecute someone for going through them, if that person has already been kicked out and commanded not to return.
Craigslist is private property and anyone can be expelled at any time for any or no reason at their sole discretion, and they can prosecute for trespassing anyone who defies them, even if craigslist itself is being patently unreasonable.
In another example, Walmart can suddenly decide they hate Seahawks fans, and ban people wearing green and blue clothes. Yes, it's patently unreasonable. But Walmart would still be within its rights to expel anyone wearing blue and green, put that person on a blacklist, and call the police to arrest them if they came back.
And who paints them as lunatics in the first place?
That's right, the media.
And who owns the media?
That's right, the corporate elite.
It will take nothing short of an act of faith to get the public to ignore the militantly organized smear campaign that will be brought to bear on any candidate who doesn't kiss ass with the powers that be.
You don't have to be a dick about the "her site, her rules" stuff. We, as her readers, are entitled to express our opinions about the closure just as she is entitled to do as she sees fit.
Furthermore, she may well intend to serve our interests anyway, so our input as her readerbase would be welcome, presumably.
Groklaw is one of the watchers watching the watchers!
Their articles expose the corporate corruption and report on the legal shenanigans by the likes of the RIAA, Apple, Microsoft, SCO, Sony, and even the federal government itself.
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I think FOX's silence is rather telling in this case.
Who owns FOX anyway?
Where do we go?
And perhaps more importantly, how do we get through the TSA?
How many people would donate more if the feds hadn't taxed the crap out of them?
Or if the corporate overlords weren't skimming the cream off the payroll and leaving the watery whey for the rank and file working class?
We call that copyright infringement.
There is no confusion, because that person actually WOULD be a criminal.
The only confusion is that they are a trespasser instead of a thief.
So they pull the mask off, and they find out you're not actually looking to rob the place.
But lo and behold, you ARE on the list of people who are banned from the store, so the cops still arrest you for trespassing.
Depends on if you're watching the game from your own property or not.
There's a scene from Angels in the Outfield where the kids are spying on a ballgame from a tree...that is inside the private property of the stadium.
Craigslist is not a public place to begin with, it is a private site.
If it's a public place you cannot be kicked out by anyone but the government in the first place. Nobody but the police would be allowed to put those barriers in the street to begin with.
Someone who owns a mansion, however, can put up fences and prosecute someone for going through them, if that person has already been kicked out and commanded not to return.
Craigslist is private property and anyone can be expelled at any time for any or no reason at their sole discretion, and they can prosecute for trespassing anyone who defies them, even if craigslist itself is being patently unreasonable.
In another example, Walmart can suddenly decide they hate Seahawks fans, and ban people wearing green and blue clothes. Yes, it's patently unreasonable. But Walmart would still be within its rights to expel anyone wearing blue and green, put that person on a blacklist, and call the police to arrest them if they came back.
Her exposure of the legal shenanigans pulled off by megacorps pissed off the powers that be and they sent the spooks after her.
Groklaw was a blast of cleansing sunshine against the undead of Sony, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, and the like. They were allies of the EFF.
My point was that two wrongs don't make a right.
Let my ass.
Lavabit's already facing potential criminal charges after shutting down.
And who paints them as lunatics in the first place?
That's right, the media.
And who owns the media?
That's right, the corporate elite.
It will take nothing short of an act of faith to get the public to ignore the militantly organized smear campaign that will be brought to bear on any candidate who doesn't kiss ass with the powers that be.
Or maybe because he was the lesser of two evils.
We didn't lose the election, it was stolen from us.
Good luck getting through the TSA.
Referees: Paid off by the feds and the megacorps;
Americans in penalty box because they dare to even try: Rising.
Shame indeed.
She was a flood of sunshine on the dark underbelly of the legal world.
You don't have to be a dick about the "her site, her rules" stuff. We, as her readers, are entitled to express our opinions about the closure just as she is entitled to do as she sees fit.
Furthermore, she may well intend to serve our interests anyway, so our input as her readerbase would be welcome, presumably.
America is not a democracy.
Not when TLAs and corporations have the political process held hostage.
Groklaw is one of the watchers watching the watchers!
Their articles expose the corporate corruption and report on the legal shenanigans by the likes of the RIAA, Apple, Microsoft, SCO, Sony, and even the federal government itself.
We need Groklaw now more than ever.
Personally I hope someone sues over destruction of personal property.
Maybe I wasn't talking about obama at all, but someone at the high end of the MI5 or so food chain that just happened to be chummy with him?
He reported the bug BEFORE he violated the facebook TOS.
So Facebook is just using the TOS violation as an excuse for *retroactive* denial of the bounty *he had already earned*.
Now that's what I call a paper cut.
It's not really about deterrence.
It's about control of the population.
Then they'll just rat you out for copyright infringement.