Wednesday 27 May 2009

"craigslist killer" proves "people are ok"?


Craig Newmark founded Craigslist in 1995. It is a centralize network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements including jobs, housing, personal sale, services, community, resumes and discussion forum. Four years ago, Newmark said, “the whole ethos is about self-policing and communal values” (BBC Online news 13-01-2006). Perhaps, that’s why we can found “erotic services” and “causal encounter” from Craigslist since November 2008.   Less than one year, a twenty-two “normal” student murdered a woman after answering her Craigslist advert for “masseuse services”. (TIMES ONLINE 22-4-2009 .Thereafter, Craigslist and other similar sites are under new security measurement.


This makes me ask myself questions. What makes this planet so sins? Is bad human behavior and violence which make technology to commit a sin? How many people respect technology with ethics? Well … how much of ethics ?

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