Comments on: You can ruin someone’s life – through Craigslist! http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2006/09/15/you-can-ruin-someones-life-through-craigs-list/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:16:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Fortuny: a man at risk of a virtual fatwa? » The Spicy Cauldron » Blog Archive http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2006/09/15/you-can-ruin-someones-life-through-craigs-list/comment-page-1/#comment-9620 Jason Fortuny: a man at risk of a virtual fatwa? » The Spicy Cauldron » Blog Archive Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:15:22 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2006/09/14/you-can-ruin-someones-life-through-craigs-list/#comment-9620 [...] Daily Dose of Queer was where I first picked up the trail of the story. Fortuny followed in the steps of one Simon Owens, who ran what was dubbed as a ’social experiment’ on Craigslist, composing several fake personal ads soliciting no-strings-attached sex with different permutations of assumed identity and sexual orientation. But while Owens tallied the results only, Fortuny went one big step further and posted the emails he received from his own variant on the experiment on his own site, complete with the contact information and photographs of nearly 150 unfortunates who replied to his ads. In so doing, he has fired up a global debate about online privacy and dating across many websites including this one and this one and, of course, the one you’re reading right now. [...] [...] Daily Dose of Queer was where I first picked up the trail of the story. Fortuny followed in the steps of one Simon Owens, who ran what was dubbed as a ’social experiment’ on Craigslist, composing several fake personal ads soliciting no-strings-attached sex with different permutations of assumed identity and sexual orientation. But while Owens tallied the results only, Fortuny went one big step further and posted the emails he received from his own variant on the experiment on his own site, complete with the contact information and photographs of nearly 150 unfortunates who replied to his ads. In so doing, he has fired up a global debate about online privacy and dating across many websites including this one and this one and, of course, the one you’re reading right now. [...]

]]> By: daily dose of queer » More Craigslist Pranks http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2006/09/15/you-can-ruin-someones-life-through-craigs-list/comment-page-1/#comment-6032 daily dose of queer » More Craigslist Pranks Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:09:14 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2006/09/14/you-can-ruin-someones-life-through-craigs-list/#comment-6032 [...] I wrote here about a “prank” (read: litigation waiting to happen, if it hasn’t already been started) in which someone posted a bogus sex ad on Craigslist and then posted private information about respondents. [...] [...] I wrote here about a “prank” (read: litigation waiting to happen, if it hasn’t already been started) in which someone posted a bogus sex ad on Craigslist and then posted private information about respondents. [...]

]]> By: Jami http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2006/09/15/you-can-ruin-someones-life-through-craigs-list/comment-page-1/#comment-5994 Jami Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:06:05 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2006/09/14/you-can-ruin-someones-life-through-craigs-list/#comment-5994 Where do cyberlaw, the First Amendment, and privacy torts meet? It's evidently not on Craigslist, cuz privacy ain't hangin' there any more. Where do cyberlaw, the First Amendment, and privacy torts meet?

It’s evidently not on Craigslist, cuz privacy ain’t hangin’ there any more.

]]> By: Andy http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2006/09/15/you-can-ruin-someones-life-through-craigs-list/comment-page-1/#comment-5992 Andy Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:28:36 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2006/09/14/you-can-ruin-someones-life-through-craigs-list/#comment-5992 This is truly appalling stuff although not altogether unsurprising when one considers spam would be ended overnight if not one person responded to it, yet millions do while 'zombie PCs' form the majority in households where firewalls and anti-virus software not present or felt to be required. It's unbelievable not that people are ignorant - many are, that's just the way it is - but that they flaunt their ignorance in the face of many dangers. And are willing to allow governments to take away their civil liberties if given a reason - and of course the reasons are never questioned. Privacy, like love or spirit, is something that cannot easily be quantified in a materialistic society and so is easily never even thought of. People operate on the principle that what is, is - and yet what is can always be changed and if we do not guard against losing what we have, we will, inevitably, lose it. These victims were fools but still, sadly, victims. One can only hope life lessons get through their thick skulls at long last. x This is truly appalling stuff although not altogether unsurprising when one considers spam would be ended overnight if not one person responded to it, yet millions do while ‘zombie PCs’ form the majority in households where firewalls and anti-virus software not present or felt to be required. It’s unbelievable not that people are ignorant – many are, that’s just the way it is – but that they flaunt their ignorance in the face of many dangers. And are willing to allow governments to take away their civil liberties if given a reason – and of course the reasons are never questioned. Privacy, like love or spirit, is something that cannot easily be quantified in a materialistic society and so is easily never even thought of. People operate on the principle that what is, is – and yet what is can always be changed and if we do not guard against losing what we have, we will, inevitably, lose it. These victims were fools but still, sadly, victims. One can only hope life lessons get through their thick skulls at long last. x

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