US District Court in Chicago dismissed a lawsuit against the Craigslist classifieds site. They had been accused of permitting discriminatory housing ads to be placed on its Chicago-local website.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I’m writing this message because our organization has been a victim of a terrible discrimination from Craigslist.com and I’m seeking advice and help from you. I believe that America stands for freedom and Justice and that is why we are here.
Craigslist.com staff have been deleting every ad we post since 02/22/2007 for no clear reason. Those ads were about “Arabic language and Culture Classes” I’m offering with over 40 teachers all over the US to bridge the American and the Arabic cultures in order to promote peace and understanding. We never violate any of the Craigslist.com policies and we can prove that.
I emailed them many times from 02/22/2007 to 02/24/2007 but never got any response!! I also called them and left them a few messages but never heard back from them. They completely ignored me. The same thing happened with another teacher in San Diego. We finally heard from their customer support two days later and they surprisingly suggested that we don’t post any link to our website (we were posting under the “services” category which allows advertisers to post URLs according to the Craigslist’s own policies)!!
We tried to understand what makes us an exception but never got an answer from the Web site’s customer service then we heard back from the owner of the site (Craig) after we told them that we might take action and sue them but he wasn’t serious at all about our concerns, repeatedly pretended that he “didn’t understand our question” and didn’t give us any clear explanation about the reason why they deleted our ads, and then blocked us from posting any new ads on craigslist.com. In fact his messages were extremely strange and we below you will see copies of them. Mr. Craig then contradicted his own customer support and said that the reason why they are deleting our ads is because “we are posting more than one ad in 48 hours in the whole nation!!” the contradicted his own self and accused us of “spamming craigslist.org because our teachers were using different email addresses!!!” We also do have many witnesses all over the United States. We believe this is a pure discrimination and we are seeking Justice.
Please help.
Yours sincerely,
Karim Mokhtar
Founder
kmoktar@carthageabc.com
http://www.carthageabc.com