In his latest blog post craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster criticizes eBay for blocking Loquo and once again points the finger at the Village Voice Media-owned Backpage. He still conveniently fails to mention that craigslist is still leading the way with the amount of prostitution and human trafficking ads.

However, the majority of his post is about how craigslist does such a wonderful job manually screening the ‘adult services’ ads.

craigslist implemented manual screening of adult services ads in May of 2009. Since that time, before being posted each individual ad is reviewed by an attorney licensed to practice law in the US, trained to enforce craigslist’s posting guidelines, which are stricter than those typically used by yellow pages, newspapers, or any other company that we are aware of. More than 700,000 ads were rejected by those attorneys in the year following implementation of manual screening, for falling short of our guidelines. Our uniquely intensive manual screening process has resulted in a mass exodus of those unwilling to abide by craigslist’s standards, manually enforced on an ad-by-ad basis.

What I want to point out is Buckmaster’s point that an attorney screens the ads. Basically what he is saying is that the ads are screened on a legal basis but not a moral one. Then again how can someone make a moral judgment when they have no morals?