[methehack]

Communist as in it's all mine? It seems like the means of production here is the data they 'publish' and they've been very clear who the owners of that are -- craigslist and no one else.

Their aggressively litigious nature makes it difficult for others to compete and provide better services. It's difficult to penetrate the network effect juggernaut if you can't scrape their existing ads.

[makomk]

For a while they even changed their terms of service to give themselves an exclusive license to anything you posted on the site in order to help them sue websites that let you search it without their permission - so in theory they could've sued their own users for posting the same ads on Craigslist and elsewhere. That's fucking insane.

[beedogs]

"Aggressively litigious nature"? Really? Because this is the first lawsuit I'm aware of involving CL, and they were clearly in the right here. So ... what's your beef?

[beedogs]

Can't articulate your issues with CL, but can click the downvote button. Pretty much sums up HN these days.