In the wake of the "Craigslist killing"—an April 14 incident in which a Boston University student is accused of murdering a 26-year-old masseuse he met on the listing site—Connecticut's Attorney General called for Craigslist to get rid of the photos in the "erotic services" section, hire staff to screen the ads and fine users who violate the terms of service. But founder Craig Newmark has no plans to do any of that.
As Newmark pointed out, Craigslist already allows users to flag material they believe is inappropriate.
"Sometimes a bad guy of some sort tries to pull a fast one on our site," he said in an interview that aired Friday night on ABC News. "We don't want it there, it's wrong, and that's why we have the help of the general community and the law enforcement community getting rid of things like that."
Yeah. So there.
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