French Dorm: Craigslist is Evil
When my girlfriend recently tried to access Craigslist on her French dorm’s internet, she got this instead:
According to the current security policy, the URL you have requested is blocked.
Host : ‘www.craigslist.org’
URL : ‘/…’
Categorie : ‘Pornography and Sexually-explicit Content‘
Weird.
Maybe somebody should have told them that regex-matching agains three-letter words is not exactly the best method of keeping your students from surfing around on “dirty” websites?
The page she wanted to see was a harmless “best of craigslist” story after all — I doubt it would survive long on Craigslist otherwise.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Seriously, CL could be seen as evil for different reasons.
They evolve the product *too* slowly. Claiming users don’t want it to evolve. But users often don’t know what they what (or what is possible). And I believe they use surveys as feedback (which is a no-no).
It’s a trenchant, anti-technological stance; Inefficiency is evil.