Torture Jobs on Craigslist

[slybacon9]

it's gone now, but i got a screenshot. Good times...

[wake.up.america]

1. Is this for real?

[slybacon9]

2. i dunno... i would say no, but at this point I've seen it all...

[Trajan]

3. This is obviously a mock posting ....

with not a little bit of sarcasm ....

craigslist will post whatever YOU put in it .... and it takes time for users, like YOU, to flag these posts so they can be deleted ...

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. They're mocking tortue. Craigslist is being sued! :(

They employ only 19 people and are now being sued for discriminatory ads. Craigslist won't exist after this lawsuit. I gues they don't monitor ANY of the ads...they just provide the software to place the ads. Now they're being sued by a Chicago lawfirm.


Craigslist Is Accused of Bias in Housing Ads



By JULIE BOSMAN
Published: February 23, 2006
FOR several years, Craigslist.org has been aggressively taking classified advertising from newspapers.


A fair housing group in Chicago has sued Craigslist, accusing it of violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968 by publishing discriminatory advertisements.

If the lawsuit, filed by the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, succeeds, Craigslist will be forced to follow the same rules newspapers do in their classified advertising listings, screening each ad to make sure no antidiscrimination laws are violated. That means ads like the ones the lawyers' group said it spotted on Craigslist in a six-month investigation would be banned.

Craigslist has only 19 employees. It permits anonymous users to post free ads, which are unedited, unscreened and of unlimited length. It charges fees for businesses to post some job openings.<snip>

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/23/business/media/23adco.html?_r=1&oref=slogin