Good for Anonymous for keeping up on these things.
The Latest Clash Between Anonymous And Scientology Is Happening On Craigslist Right Now
Anonymous’s counter-ads (images at the link) are hilarious: “How to Rid Your Body of Invisible Dead Alien Spirits Course.”
According to comments further down the article, they don’t seem to be very effective in this case. Anonymous’ ads are being flagged down while Scientology ads remain up. Craigslist is suspected of complicity or of simply not caring.
Roddy
From Anonymous:
when they are also breaking Craigslist’s rules. Pot, meet kettle.
StG
Not caring, is my opinion as an occasional Craigslister. They’ve got a flagging system in place, and it works well enough.
I don’t really see any reason for outrage. If Craigslist doesn’t want to stop Scientology from posting a lot of ads, they don’t have to. Its their website. “Terms and Conditions” are binding on users, not Craigslist.
Because that means that, if they are supporting Scientology, and you don’t, you can’t support them.
I don’t understand this prevalent attitude that, because someone has the right to do something, we lose all right to care whether it is right or wrong.
Only in your world of absolute black and white, with strict adherence to a manufactured and tortured transitive property rule of morality.
This, if true, is wrong. Contracts should be binding on all parties.
The pot calling the kettle black refers to actions you’ve taken before the claim, not actions you take during the claim. When you are doing the same action specifically because someone else is doing it, in a form of protest, the epithet doesn’t make sense.
That’s the type of mistake I would expect in Yahoo! comments, not the SDMB. Your argument is like saying that Rosa Parks should have went to the back of the bus instead of violating the law. You can’t condemn someone for performing the entire point of the protest.
Scientology is breaking the rules of Craigslist and getting away with it. Anonymous does the exact same thing as a form of protest against this. But then only Anonymous gets in trouble. Obviously, for some reason, Scientology is getting special treatment.
When you would willingly risk having your entire website taken down, depriving you of revenue, just to allow Scientologists to break the rules, there’s something nefarious going on. Either you support Scientology, or you are getting some benefit from them. Either that, or you’re more scared of Scientology than Anonymous, which is a scary thought.
Well that seems to be the question. Who is scarier Tom Cruise or Guy Fawkes?
Capt
It’s not a contract. A contract involves an exchange. Craigslist isn’t asking anything of its users in exchange for its promise to host the ads (presuming these are free ads we’re talking about). It’s making a one-sided offer of “We’ll host the ads as long as they meet these guidelines and we feel like it.”