Craig Newmark is such a pimp.
So says Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who this week targeted the wide-ranging and wide-reaching (no kinky puns intended) classified-ad megaplex Craigslist with a charge of “allowing ads for prostitution,” according to a press release published by his office and later relayed by Mike Masnick of Techdirt.
We’ve gone through this kind of moronic roundabout before. Mashable’s Sean P. Aune highlighted a story earlier this month concerning discrimination charges against Craigslist for specific real estate listings, of which the site was eventually cleared. Now Craig is getting railed for playing house to sexual sales. Can we expect to find this case dropped as well? Probably.
Unfortunately, Blumenthal will likely exercise some of that power granted to his person to give Craigslist a good public raking, which he describes as being “several months” in the making. His office was purportedly in discussions with the site over the matter of prostitution well before making this announcement. Blumenthal says “the site refused to take aggressive steps to curp apparent prostitution ads.” He was told that “no staff members regularly check for such postings.”