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		<title>Craigslist Comes Out Against SOPA</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:11:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<p>We can add Craigslist to the growing <a href="http://americancensorship.org/supporters.html" target="_blank">roster</a> of popular websites that have come out against the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP Acts. The online community/seedy Wal Mart of classified ads giant emphatically states "SOPA and PIPA are too dangerous to revise" and "must be killed entirely." Why?<!--more--><br />
CL initially approaches the subject with purple prose, describing SOPA/PIPA's potential to destroy the basic structure of the Internet by "recklessly unleashing a tsunami of take-down notices and litigation, and a Pandora's jar of 'chilling effects,'" then gets to why the measures could really hit Craigslist.org where it hurts:</p>
<blockquote><p>For example, <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111005/10082416208/monster-cable-claims-ebay-craigslist-costco-sears-are-rogue-sites.shtml" target="_blank">Monster Cable considers craigslist a "rogue site" for takedown under PIPA</a> - they want to prevent YOU from selling YOUR unwanted cables so they can increase sales! <a href="http://nomoresopa.com/wp/?page_id=29" target="_blank">Many other "rights holders" want to do the same</a>. Boycott anyone? <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/01/09/boycott-sopa/" target="_blank">There is an app for that</a>.</p>
<p>Corporations pushing SOPA/PIPA w<a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill" target="_blank">ant the ability to block you from reaching any web site they feel might be hurting their profits</a> -- without due process of any kind, or review in any court -- by literally interrupting all Internet traffic to those sites via DNS at the ISPs and by censoring search engine results.  Incredibly, many lawmakers <a href="http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/" target="_blank">want to give them that right</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Craiglist goes on to call SOPA/PIPA "job-killing, anti-American nonsense." They nod to the <a href="http://www.observer.com/2012/01/the-white-house-signals-opposition-to-sopa/" target="_blank">White House opposition</a> to SOPA/PIPA "as drafted" but insist the bills must simply be put out of their misery, not revised.</p>
<p>Craigslist did not indicate any plans to participate in the January 18 blackout to protest SOPA, like <a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html" target="_blank">Reddit</a>, the <a href="https://twitter.com/benhuh/status/157722005431517184" target="_blank">Cheezburger family of sites</a> and <a href="http://boingboing.net/?p=139152" target="_blank">Boing Boing</a>, just to name a few.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA">CL/SOPA</a>, the<a href="http://nlb-creations.com/2012/01/13/websites-confirmed-for-the-jan-18-blackout-protesting-sopa/" target="_blank"> NLB Creations List of Sites participating in the Jan. 18 Blackout</a>]</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_211991" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 188px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-211991" href="http://www.observer.com/2012/01/craigslist-comes-out-against-sopa/craigslistsopa/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-211991" title="craigslistSOPA" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/craigslistsopa.png?w=178&h=300" alt="" width="178" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Screengrab</p></div></p>
<p>We can add Craigslist to the growing <a href="http://americancensorship.org/supporters.html" target="_blank">roster</a> of popular websites that have come out against the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP Acts. The online community/seedy Wal Mart of classified ads giant emphatically states "SOPA and PIPA are too dangerous to revise" and "must be killed entirely." Why?<!--more--><br />
CL initially approaches the subject with purple prose, describing SOPA/PIPA's potential to destroy the basic structure of the Internet by "recklessly unleashing a tsunami of take-down notices and litigation, and a Pandora's jar of 'chilling effects,'" then gets to why the measures could really hit Craigslist.org where it hurts:</p>
<blockquote><p>For example, <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111005/10082416208/monster-cable-claims-ebay-craigslist-costco-sears-are-rogue-sites.shtml" target="_blank">Monster Cable considers craigslist a "rogue site" for takedown under PIPA</a> - they want to prevent YOU from selling YOUR unwanted cables so they can increase sales! <a href="http://nomoresopa.com/wp/?page_id=29" target="_blank">Many other "rights holders" want to do the same</a>. Boycott anyone? <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/01/09/boycott-sopa/" target="_blank">There is an app for that</a>.</p>
<p>Corporations pushing SOPA/PIPA w<a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill" target="_blank">ant the ability to block you from reaching any web site they feel might be hurting their profits</a> -- without due process of any kind, or review in any court -- by literally interrupting all Internet traffic to those sites via DNS at the ISPs and by censoring search engine results.  Incredibly, many lawmakers <a href="http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/" target="_blank">want to give them that right</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Craiglist goes on to call SOPA/PIPA "job-killing, anti-American nonsense." They nod to the <a href="http://www.observer.com/2012/01/the-white-house-signals-opposition-to-sopa/" target="_blank">White House opposition</a> to SOPA/PIPA "as drafted" but insist the bills must simply be put out of their misery, not revised.</p>
<p>Craigslist did not indicate any plans to participate in the January 18 blackout to protest SOPA, like <a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html" target="_blank">Reddit</a>, the <a href="https://twitter.com/benhuh/status/157722005431517184" target="_blank">Cheezburger family of sites</a> and <a href="http://boingboing.net/?p=139152" target="_blank">Boing Boing</a>, just to name a few.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA">CL/SOPA</a>, the<a href="http://nlb-creations.com/2012/01/13/websites-confirmed-for-the-jan-18-blackout-protesting-sopa/" target="_blank"> NLB Creations List of Sites participating in the Jan. 18 Blackout</a>]</p>
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