Craiglist, the popular online classified advertising service company seems to be in a clear soup. Though for some time now it has been bypassing quite a lot of not so friendly heavyweights from the field of publishing, advertising and web, but could not carry on with it as hit hard by whom…. a Chicago public interest group. The allegation against the Bay Area-based online community is running discriminatory housing ads (which is violating fair housing laws) on the basis of race, family size, religion, gender etc. Like these
Christian single straight female needed
Muslim preferred
Sorry, no kids, no pets
No minorities
Requirements: Clean Godly Christian male
Irked Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed the lawsuit in the federal court in Chicago.
Don’t know what light the law will actually beam onto the case. Craigslist Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster says his company is not legally responsible for the content posted on it by end users.
Via [Sfgate] and [Mercurynews]
