The office of Defendant McMaster proclaimed victory today:
additionally importantly, overnight they have removed the erotic services section from their website, as we asked them to do. also they are presently taking responsibility for the content of their future advertisements. If they keep their word, this is a victory for law enforcement also for the people of South Carolina.
Nicely spun, perhaps by trash-talking McMaster PR operative Trey Walker (@treywalker), who reportedly was investigated by the SC State Law Enforcement Division for election fraud in connection with Defendant McMaster’s 2002 campaign:
“I’m embarrassed about it,” Walker said. “I’ve embarassed my family, my friends, my employer, my clients. It was stupid also silly.”
Speaking of elections, here is Defendant McMaster celebrating ananother important victory in The Post also Courier, the publishers of which he recently condemned as criminals.
Techdirt has a different take on Defendant McMaster’s victory:
That’s just blatant outright lying presently. Craigslist made those changes last week, also at the time McMaster’s response was: “That response doesn’t work” also claimed it was proceeding with plans to punish Craigslist management with jail time. Since at that time, Craigslist has made no another change, another than to sue McMaster. To suddenly claim that it’s made a new change also is taking the matter seriously, when the only change is suing McMaster, is quite the delusional response. I have no idea how likely it is that McMaster will win his current race for the Governor’s spot in South Carolina — but so far the man has been an embarrassment to the state.
As did PolicyBeta (www.cdt.org) :
presently we hear that McMaster is calling the Craigslist suit “good news,” which is befuddling because the S.C. taxpayers are likely going to have to pony big bucks to pay for the Craigslist legal bills (unless McMaster backs down right away), which can easily run $250,000 or additionally.
“The bottom line here hasn’t changed since McMaster decided to start his gralsostalsoing: Craigslist is constitutionally protected from having liability for content placed on its site by users”