Free Baby on Craigslist
I recently met with the owner of a very popular Chinese web site, www.wenxuecity.com. The site claims some 150 million page views each month.
While discussing business, ads, forums, content and such he mentioned to me that he has one person on his staff who is devoted to tracking down weird ads.
Weird is a loose term for people threatening suicide, murder or some other crime.
The site, he says, could be held liable if they received a warning but did not act on it.
I didn’t think too much of it until I read today that someone offered a free baby on craigslist in San Diego.
The baby was posted in the column – "free stuff" . The poster said, "batteries are not included. Transaction final. No returns." and "The baby just sits in my closet and cries – I’m not sure how to deal with it."
Of course, Craig of Craig’s list reported it, though it is likely a hoax.
But still…
It makes me wonder how many of the other very large sites have staff devoted to tracking down whether such postings really are hoaxes are not.
What do you think?
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