Craigslist Sues South Carolina Attorney General
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: craigslist, sues, south, carolina, erotic | Themes: The Internet
With daily updates on the Craigslist/South Carolina cat fight, it was all bound to come to a head sooner or later. The site today announced that it has filed a lawsuit suing Henry McMaster. Oh and don’t forget the restraining order.
In the latest blog post, Craigslist CEO, Jim Buckmaster points out that the only way to completely comply with South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster's request would be to remove the South Carolina Craigslist entirely.
Aside from a post on his website to say he would go ahead with the threatened criminal investigation and potential prosecution, AG McMaster had remained pretty quiet about the whole affair, even when Craigslist published a post demanding an apology.
Today Craigslist offers an update on AG McMaster’s plans to go ahead with a criminal investigation.
In case there had been any ambiguity as to his intentions, Mr McMaster made the following remarks on Sunday:
“We opened an investigation at 5:01 on Friday, as promised. . . . We are preparing for a prosecution. We are investigating. We are moving forward. . . . . The #1 defendant is Mr. Jim Buckmaster, who is the man in charge of craigslist.. . . . craigslist is a big promoter and facilitator of prostitution.”
Craigslist is seeking declaratory relief and a restraining order with respect to the criminal charges McMaster threatened the site and its executives with. Check out Jim Buckmaster's full post here.
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Good for Buckmaster. I don't think he'd win, but I'm glad to see he's fighting back against these asses that try to throw someone under the bus to serve their own politcal career.
Good for Mr. Buckmaster!
on a side note I haven't figured out - it seems approximately 85% of these news stories I click on are from Jane McEntegart, the rest from Kevin and Tuan I believe it is with 1% wild card others. are these stories assigned randomly? =) lol
AG McMaster is just pissed because he wanted the name Buckmaster.
Good for Mr. Buckmaster!on a side note I haven't figured out - it seems approximately 85% of these news stories I click on are from Jane McEntegart, the rest from Kevin and Tuan I believe it is with 1% wild card others. are these stories assigned randomly? =) lol
It only seems that way. Marcus and I write an equal number of stories each day. Kevin does roughly 3 a day. Tuan writes whatever he can when he can find time away from his duties Director of News Operations.
If it seems like I write more it's because I am based in Ireland and so, everything I write is written in the middle of the night and goes up first, before anyone else has a chance to write anything.
AG McMaster is just pissed because he wanted the name Buckmaster.
That or when he replied to the Craigslist ad looking for a 14yr old Korean boy all he got was some 54yr old cougar from the local trailer park.
first pirate bay, then craigslist, next google... sounds like Mr McMaster and company need to get laid... ;-)
first pirate bay, then craigslist, next google... sounds like Mr McMaster and company need to get laid... ;-)
Shame, they won't be able to look for help with that on Craigslist anymore.
Need to borrow some guts from the guys at piratebay
... I don't think he'd win ...
for god sakes man, it's the south, anything is possible, including slavery, so a little sex should not cause anyone too much heartburn...
oh, i forgot the south is full of religious nut jobs, hypocrites and inbreds, so expect Mr. Buckmaster of Craiglist to end up with a one way trip to the sunny isle of Cuba for an indifinite stay at Guantanamo.
Need to borrow some guts from the guys at piratebay
maybe, they should adapt the same repayment scheme. ;-)
so expect Mr. Buckmaster of Craiglist to end up with a one way trip to the sunny isle of Cuba for an indifinite stay at Guantanamo
...didn't our wonderful pres. close that place down?
Umm yeah, I'm sure there's some decent people in the state (probably in the urban areas) but it's gonna be hard to find a true jury of your peers there.
Umm yeah, I'm sure there's some decent people in the state (probably in the urban areas) but it's gonna be hard to find a true jury of your peers there.
with regards to your peers
sure you'll find a bunch of good old boys there, our domestic verion of the Taliban, they even have a club, the KKK.
...didn't our wonderful pres. close that place down?
nope, he found it useful after all. same old bushit, the only change, was only skin deep. ;-)
IMO, craiglist should make good on their idea and just take ALL SC listings down.
IMO, craiglist should make good on their idea and just take ALL SC listings down.
while CL can remove certain sections, people can post it under another section. look at ebay and what happens there, you look up xbox and you get listing on how you can get one for free by signing up for a bunch of junk and then cancel your subscriptions or how you can get one in a raffle, ect. i think that is what they are worried about now, all the mispostings. will they be responsible for taking those too, if so then before each posting can be made life, someone will have to screen it, will a simple reading be enough, or will they have to contact the seller to ensure its real, ect. it can go nuts and quickly become very expensive.
Oops, I accidentally posted the AG's contact info:
Mark Plowden
803-734-3670
mplowden@ag.state.sc.us
I hope nobody leaves emails and voice messages about what a piece of shit he is.
*Hopefully, I got it right... From what I can tell Mark's the Communications Director for the Office of the Attorney General in SC... and this comment section needs an EDIT BUTTON already.
i hope he wins a huge lawsuit.he deserves it and i am glad he is fighting them back.
WOW your all so open minded you trash a whole state as inbreed white trash. I bet your moms are proud.
@m3kt3k: I briefly lived in SC, and if any state in the union is worthy of being called inbred and white trash, it's SC. Are you defending it because you live there, or have you never been and are assuming it can't be *that* bad? The minute you cross the SC border from GA or NC, it instantly looks like you've taken a time machine back 50 years...
you've obviously never been to Alabama
Can we please stop with the sterotypes? I've lived in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado and now Texas. I've spent a good deal of time in South Carolina as well. My family is from Georgia, all my dad's family is from Alabama. I've got lots of relatives in Mississippi. Etc... There is no more racist bull$hit in the South than there is anywhere else in the country. Things are not at all like they were 50 years ago, but people don't care. The people are nice and friendly; they aren't racist. Sure there are still plenty of racist people, but don't all live in the South.
You're just as likely to find a racist person in upstate New York or western Colorado or southern Arizona as you are in Georgia, Alabama, or South Carolina.
That being said, clearly the SC AG has his head up his a$s, but I'm guessing its one of those 'too late to turn back now without being humiliated' things.
Who else is peeved with the 'jesus freaks' telling Craigslist to remove the Erotic services??? How don't those attorneys spend time prosecuting rapists and murderers.. All that will be displaced by this are more than welcome at http://www.funwithgina.com. It is 100% free..
Craiglist should have never caved in the first place.
Well, it was bound to happen, someone started www.clerotic.org to take the place of craigslist erotic services