The region’s first Groupon service has reached Beirut in another expansion for GoNabIt which kicked it off with a 61% discount on a girls manicure pedicure at Fadia El Mendelek Salon. Kinda tells you who the people from GoNabIt expect to be purchasing.
GoNabIt which launched back in May of this year immediately became the UAE’s new online obsession propagating deals in line with it’s social e-commerce based model, you can read more about it here.
GoNabIt which is majority owned by Bayt.com has been making a run for their money ever since Cobone.com launched also backed by a regional online giant, namely Jabbar Internet Group.
This launch gives GoNabIt a one city advantage to Cobone.com, but the stakes remain high to claim the title of the region’s number one Group Discount service.
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One thing you're missing here: Craigslist started charging for the Adult Services section at the request of previous Attorneys General with the idea that adding a charge that required a credit card would curtail the use of the section for illegal activities.
http://www.scattorneygeneral.com/newsroom/pdf/2009/craigslist.pdf
Posted by: Collin |
September 8, 2010 6:04 PMAh! Makes sense. Updating the post. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Posted by: Adrianne Jeffries |
September 8, 2010 6:14 PMI'm baffled as to why craigslist didn't see the profit issue ahead of time. I'm 100% behind them, but raking in millions just doesn't look good, and makes them an easy target. From day one of charging for Adult Services, they should have been giving 100% of that money to organizations that work to prevent sex trafficking and child prostitution, to make it 100% clear that the money was for filtering, not for profit.
Posted by: Brad Weikel |
September 8, 2010 6:17 PMI think this is a good thing to do for Craiglist. But I bet that some thousands or maybe millions of dollars will be taken out from earnings in the industry with Craiglist ready to censor. LOL. Thanks for the info.
Posted by: WebHosting Guru |
September 8, 2010 7:09 PMI'm baffled how an article on ReadWriteWeb could miss the obvious question of free speech on the internet.
What you have here is public officials (facing re-election) using their office as a pulpit, making legal threats they know to be unenforceable, and lying to the media in order to prohibit speech which they know to be legal. State AGs are literally using a public relations campaign to circumvent an Act of Congress intended to curtail their power against just *this* kind of electioneering. That the AGs happen to be exploiting victimized children in their media campaign is almost incidental to the larger attack on the law and Constitution.
The Communications Decency Act protects electronic publishers from liability for content produced by users of the system. Absent that immunity there could be no Google, no Blogspot, no Facebook, no WordPress.com, no Digg or Reddit, no Twitter and no comments (like this one) on ReadWriteWeb.
The moralistic campaigns against 4chan and craigslist all lead to one inevitable conclusion: the publishers of ReadWriteWeb will be criminally and civilly liable for the comments of this community.
Here's a concept that's new: Has anyone ever substantiated the claims that Craigslist has ever been used for child or human trafficking? Is there even one demonstrable case of this occurring? If not, then the site may have just established millions of dollars in damages for a defamation suit against it's detractors. Yes, Craigslist is a public person, that doesn't mean they can't be defamed: they just have to prove damages.
Posted by: Baffled |
September 8, 2010 10:04 PMMobile phone carriers should be banned to provide a phone number to prostitutes as they are also making tons of money from an illegale activity.
Same thing for people selling cloth, sex toys, etc.
Posted by: idont |
September 9, 2010 9:21 AMOne thing you're missing here: Craigslist started charging for the Adult Services section at the request of previous Attorneys General with the idea that adding a charge that required a credit card would curtail the use of the section for illegal activities.
http://www.scattorneygeneral.com/newsroom/pdf/2009/craigslist.pdf
Posted by: Collin |
September 8, 2010 6:04 PMAh! Makes sense. Updating the post. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Posted by: Adrianne Jeffries |
September 8, 2010 6:14 PMI'm baffled as to why craigslist didn't see the profit issue ahead of time. I'm 100% behind them, but raking in millions just doesn't look good, and makes them an easy target. From day one of charging for Adult Services, they should have been giving 100% of that money to organizations that work to prevent sex trafficking and child prostitution, to make it 100% clear that the money was for filtering, not for profit.
Posted by: Brad Weikel |
September 8, 2010 6:17 PMI think this is a good thing to do for Craiglist. But I bet that some thousands or maybe millions of dollars will be taken out from earnings in the industry with Craiglist ready to censor. LOL. Thanks for the info.
Posted by: WebHosting Guru |
September 8, 2010 7:09 PMI'm baffled how an article on ReadWriteWeb could miss the obvious question of free speech on the internet.
What you have here is public officials (facing re-election) using their office as a pulpit, making legal threats they know to be unenforceable, and lying to the media in order to prohibit speech which they know to be legal. State AGs are literally using a public relations campaign to circumvent an Act of Congress intended to curtail their power against just *this* kind of electioneering. That the AGs happen to be exploiting victimized children in their media campaign is almost incidental to the larger attack on the law and Constitution.
The Communications Decency Act protects electronic publishers from liability for content produced by users of the system. Absent that immunity there could be no Google, no Blogspot, no Facebook, no WordPress.com, no Digg or Reddit, no Twitter and no comments (like this one) on ReadWriteWeb.
The moralistic campaigns against 4chan and craigslist all lead to one inevitable conclusion: the publishers of ReadWriteWeb will be criminally and civilly liable for the comments of this community.
Here's a concept that's new: Has anyone ever substantiated the claims that Craigslist has ever been used for child or human trafficking? Is there even one demonstrable case of this occurring? If not, then the site may have just established millions of dollars in damages for a defamation suit against it's detractors. Yes, Craigslist is a public person, that doesn't mean they can't be defamed: they just have to prove damages.
Posted by: Baffled |
September 8, 2010 10:04 PMMobile phone carriers should be banned to provide a phone number to prostitutes as they are also making tons of money from an illegale activity.
Same thing for people selling cloth, sex toys, etc.
Posted by: idont |
September 9, 2010 9:21 AM
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The region’s first Groupon service has reached Beirut in another expansion for GoNabIt which kicked it off with a 61% discount on a girls manicure pedicure at Fadia El Mendelek Salon. Kinda tells you who the people from GoNabIt expect to be purchasing.
GoNabIt which launched back in May of this year immediately became the UAE’s new online obsession propagating deals in line with it’s social e-commerce based model, you can read more about it here.
GoNabIt which is majority owned by Bayt.com has been making a run for their money ever since Cobone.com launched also backed by a regional online giant, namely Jabbar Internet Group.
This launch gives GoNabIt a one city advantage to Cobone.com, but the stakes remain high to claim the title of the region’s number one Group Discount service.
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