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Craigslist also had an adult section. Should anyone who sold software to Craigslist be held legally responsible as well?
by JamesBarney 8y ago
Craigslist also had an adult section. Should anyone who sold software to Craigslist be held legally responsible as well?
- anoncoward111 8y agoIt's like know your customer laws, but for everything! Are you a grocery store that sells food to a potential jaywalker? You better find out!!
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- anoncoward111 8y agoyou asked me twice, and this isnt unsubstantive
- creaghpatr 8y agoYeah, but on Craigslist you can't lead capture and convert to contacts and opportunities with cross-object reporting /s
- will_brown 8y agoI can’t answer “if we should”...only as I explained above that under the law what you describe isn’t enough on its own to create liability for the service provide, the legal threshold is whether the seller knew the buyer would use the good/service in commission of a crime. So for example the power company who sold power to run backpage, could they be liable? Probably not. But a tech company who allegedly custom built a database to facilitate backpages human trafficking/prostitution activities...maybe
- JamesBarney 8y agoThey custom built a database to facilitate an adult classifieds section. Which on its face is not illegal, and the argument it was illegal was based on a technicality related to filtering and word replacement that removed their safe harbor protections. The owners themselves did not know this until the court case was decided years later so it seems weird to presume that Salesforce could know it.
- oneshoe 8y agoI do not believe to be true any longer. A recent law passed by congress, H.R. 1865 made that illegal in an effort to fight online sex trafficking.
- JamesBarney 8y agoBackpage was shut down before the law went into effect so I assume the Salesforce work was done before the law went into effect as well.