is Jim Buckmaster for real? giving another try...

MORE: and again, Jim Buckmaster did not post my comment (although he already posted a pretty much random one -- much less relevant -- and submitted after mine) -- I can pretty much ignore his stuff from now on (seems to be B.S.) D.

Jim,

(http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/05/an-open-invitation-to-rachel-lloyd/#comment-159056)

You just *can't* keep any of that money and expect people to believe that you are honest or that you care about the very serious problems you talk about here -- you must realize this. I don't know whose idea it really was, but the AGs agreed with the charging of the fee and you publicly vowed not to profit from it. As long as you keep your word, the impasse should be solvable. I would just hand over all those profits to the AGs and tell them to do as they will with it! because you have trouble giving it away as was planned and do not want to keep any of it.

I would also ask them to get together with the orgs they deem pertinent and come up with ways to solve the problem and offer honest cooperation. If they say, you should shut down the adult section and you believe it would really make no real difference -- give it a try! Shut down the erotic section in one location where it has high activity at the moment and see what happens -- are those ads truly migrating to personals in mass as you appear to believe would be the case or only a small part of them do? Given that some may suspect conflict of interest, make sure you allow a neutral party to do the determination of what is really going on and make that public regardless of their findings.

As long as there is a genuine desire to solve this problem, I see no reason why things could not drastically improve.

Delia

Jim Buckmaster blasts poor Brad Stone of NYT

MORE: KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI Nonprofit to Craigslist: Keep Your Money (http://nyti.ms/bbfOsk) yep! that's what I thought... (http://bit.ly/d4NOuk) 10:12 PM May 2nd via web

Twitter:

NYT's Brad Stone dares look at it from both sides *for once*&Jim Buckmaster blasts him for it -prior suck-ups forgotten http://bit.ly/aUuu04 17 minutes ago via web

ok, Jim! so the prostitution $ doesn't go in the Craigslist Charitable Fund or *does* it? -grantees would need to know http://bit.ly/9gBYMV 12 minutes ago via web

..does Jim Buckmaster think people are going to believe that craigslist is making that kind of $ from barely legal massage ads and the like? 10 minutes ago via web

or that the fact that others are doing it also is a legitimate excuse? he would do well to remember the CL feedback speeding ticket analogy 3 minutes ago via web

EFF continues to defend obsolete legal rationale

UPDATE: in a cowardish move (so it seems to me), Jim Buckmaster "moderated" against my comment (didn't fit the party line, I guess..) D.

Twitter: EFF continues to defend obsolete legal rationale: the internet is way past its infancy -way overdue for an update! http://tinyurl.com/ponfkl14 minutes ago from web
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re: "If site operators were forced to screen all third party contributions under risk of civil or criminal penalty, the Internet would lose many of the vibrant services that have made it so dynamic."

EFF continues to defend obsolete legal rationale: that protection was given when the internet was in its infancy -- way overdue for an update! (sites should be required to spend a reasonable amount on preventive measures *given their profits* -- craigslist appears to insist on maintaining huge profits and extremely low expenses no matter what ...)

Delia

(http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/05/eff-ags-have-no-case/#comment-62162)

(comic relief) Jim calls the shape-up-or-else meeting with the AGs "cordial"!

Twitter: (comic relief) what does Jim call the shape-up-or-else meeting with the AGs? "cordial"! *lol* (http://tinyurl.com/ppnxup)28 minutes ago from web
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Chris, In case you haven't noticed, Jim is using the craigslist blog as a PR tool -- ridiculous PR at times... (e.g. calling the shape-up-or-else meeting with the AGs "cordial" *lol* ) ~Delia
(http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/05/eff-ags-have-no-case/#comment-62119)

(Techcrunch) Beefcake on craigslistblog: "a list of press releases"

STILL MORE: Jim is backpaddling... badly... at least part of his story (having been friendly at all: 9th, 10th and 11th paragraphs) appears to be made up... Tim was also disputing Jim's claim that he took his ads off before media attention and that he intended to use deceptive ads from craigslist's competitors -- appearently, Google's Adsense decides what ads will appear on the blog with the blogger having no choice in the matter once she/he agrees to use ads (entry appears to be removed as of the morning of April 6th -- is Tim updating it?). D.

EVEN MORE: mostly very good commentary on this in the Sacramento Bee

MORE: funny thing: craigslist had to use the dot com domain name (as it would have had to do anyways if the dot org domain would be regulated, as it should be) because a guy Tim White already started a craigslistblog.org --> Valleywag has a good entry and comments on this

(Mozilla help: (Techcrunch) Beefcake on craigslistblog: "a list of press releases" )
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very good observation! (again, could Michael Arrington just not get this? I find it very hard to believe given the sort of things he has been doing...) D.