Name: The One Thing You CAN'T Sell on Craigslist
Uploaded: 2024-12-19T16:00:16.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The One Thing You CAN'T Sell on Craigslist' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The One Thing You CAN'T Sell on Craigslist' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-19. Transcript available.

were there ever um like uh categories that you wouldn't do were there were
there ever
um right very early on we heard in large numbers that uh uh people didn't want
gun sales on the
site and there i am thinking because i still have some influence then uh there
are constitutional
rights there but one of them is uh property rights so if you have a site it's
your property you get to
set the rules so you decide what's right and wrong there so i believe in
property rights and freedom
of choice and that's what you exercise and that's what people do through the
net it's your site your
thing you decide what the rules are so you were able to so you actually got to
decide that or not
decided are you and your team team okay i uh had an opinion but i wanted the
team as such as it was
to work it out because i'm trying to think like so guns was a thing do you guys
end up selling them on
there no uh no he said uh no guns uh-huh and uh swords anything i i have a
feeling swords are okay
but i've never thought about it yeah i'm trying to think of some gr i mean
because i mean drugs are
uh they're off so drugs were off but people would try to skirt around that but
even then some of that
was sometimes also now were there ever caught like could the cops use your site
as well if they wanted
to to like as um decoy type of stuff uh i hear gossip about that i don't know
how true that really is
right because you don't know right i do know that the cops uh have used the
site in different ways to uh fight crime
mm-hmm sometimes uh let's suppose they think they see a stolen item being uh uh
being listed on the
site then they would well this is true for anything on the net if a cop sees
something they think is
wrong and they have a shot at doing something about it they send a subpoena or
a search warrant to the
site and then the site uh the operators usually pass it to their lawyers and
then the uh site operators
provide the forensic evidence to the cops um which again is like csi and just
fighting uh fighting crime
they're not going to come there the deal is in this country we have these
checks and balances
in the constitution and bill of rights and you know the uh founders of the
country did a really
good job of that yeah you know there are amendments and so on which we only
thought of years after
but the uh the people who did the initial work did great work and it uh for the
most part stands up
today they built a good structure over there when you're doing customer service
at that deeper level
you see a lot of stuff and most of it is great i did see some stuff i uh wish i
didn't
and that's the problem with content moderation it's a very tough job especially
if it's full
time and you're not getting paid much um and so these people are only seeing
questionable stuff
and that can do some damage yeah were you uh so at that point yeah i guess
because craigslist
started to be this place it kind of became everything really fast is what it
felt like just as a user right
it became like a first place where you could get a used air you know you could
get a
blender an air balloon or a roommate but then it started to escalate to where
there was like um
you know people would buy drugs on there you know or people you'd see people
like um i would do it
you know and you would see people but they also had code names for the drugs
yeah so it made it to be
this kind of like um it it had a fun spot to it you know you'd be on there i
mean they had like i
remember beef jerky was a code name um those many bennies they had that brain dander
that baby hay
was one of them um i'm trying to think of any other that pedrito blanco was a
spam but then you know
what it was that dragon de negro they had um uh i'm trying to eat that
whispering mother that was
that was a kind of a native one that they were it was peyote whisper i know
that uh the mainstream
press greatly exaggerated a lot of this they didn't point out that what you see
on the street
always makes it online and online everywhere you guys weren't producing it well
what they what the
mainstream press doesn't point out that if you're a conscientious site you uh
keep around the digital
forensics and because people leave a lot of trace evidence around uh csi style
wow and that years and
years ago i talked with a lot of cops who were real pleased with the way that
we kept around the
forensics um and because of high school history um i learned the balance
between fighting crime and the
rights of the accused what's in the bill of rights what's in the constitution
wow so you had to so you
took that upon yourself to it must have been kind of a tough navigation was it
tough to navigate that
personally because you have this this atmosphere that people can kind of it's a
it's just a pathway
right well what i did is i mentioned this to the boss and to the lawyers and
said that we got to do
this balance we had the advantage of having the electronic frontier foundation
available because they're
the big pioneers of all this stuff online what does that mean the electronic
frontier foundation well what
they did is they're a great voice in standing up for the rights of regular
people and that balance
you got to do the right thing to uh for victims and cops you got to do so in an
american way meaning
looking at the bill of rights and uh if a cop wants to see at the forensics
there needs to be something
like a subpoena or search warrant um that's the way things are done in our
country there's the laws that's a
judicial overview and that's the ultimate purpose of that was to prevent the
kind of abuse we saw under
king george uh literally speaking i did have that really good high school
history teacher
he taught the kind of civics that you don't have nowadays but i took this in
the uh in 1970
i i'm really old and i looked great well thank you this teacher was great
because he even took us once
to a taping of a firing line which was william f buckley jr he invented uh
american conservatism
at least the modern form of it and that really influenced me because at that
point i'm getting
off on a tangent but at that point i was looking at that i was starting to take
a bit of a look at
libertarianism that kind of stuff again this is more than 50 years ago so it's
funny because you
kind of ended up in this space later on where you're like trying to look at the
ethics of like um
communication who has rights what the how do you protect people but also give
people the freedoms
that they are deserve under their own life is that what you're kind of saying
that's pretty much it
um these days frankly uh i've given up on politics yeah for some years i now
regard terms like liberal
and conservative as kind of uh bullshit yeah
Thank you.