This is a victory for all websites with user generated content!
From Online Media Daily
In a ruling that has implications for all companies that publish consumer-generated content, a federal appeals court found Craigslist not responsible for discriminatory ads that were placed by users of the online classifieds site, and stated that the federal Communications Decency Act doesn’t allow people to “sue the messenger just because the message reveals a third party’s plan to engage in unlawful discrimination.”
“An online service could hire a staff to vet the postings, but that would be expensive and may well be futile: If postings had to be reviewed before being put online, long delay could make the service much less useful, and if the vetting came only after the material was online the buyers and sellers might already have made their deals,” the court wrote.
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