Craigslist can block, delete, suppress, or terminate your account at any time for any reason, and the company says it bears no legal responsibility for those decisions or for failing to moderate at all.
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There is no stated appeal process, notice requirement, or grounds limitation on moderation actions, meaning your access, listings, or account can be removed without explanation and without financial or legal remedy under these terms.
Users have no contractual right to notice, explanation, or appeal if Craigslist blocks, removes, or terminates their account, and the company explicitly disclaims any liability for moderation decisions, including decisions not to moderate harmful content.
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Our moderators will thoughtfully consider any explanations and supplemental information provided by the Member when deciding whether to take action or reinstate access.
If we learn that we've collected the personal data of a child under the age of 13 or 16, as applicable, we'll take reasonable steps to delete the personal data. This may require us to delete the Skillshare account...
If we become aware that a child has provided us with personal data without parental consent, we remove such data and terminate the child's account (except where we are required to retain all or a portion of such data for compliance purposes).
"You agree we may moderate CL access/use in our sole discretion, e.g., by blocking, filtering, re-categorizing, re-ranking, deleting, delaying, holding, omitting, verifying, or terminating your access/license/account. You agree (1) not to bypass said moderation, (2) we are not liable for moderating or not moderating, and (3) nothing we say or do waives our right to moderate, or not.Excerpt from Craigslist's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides broad immunity to online platforms for moderation decisions involving third-party content.
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There is no stated appeal process, notice requirement, or grounds limitation on moderation actions, meaning your access, listings, or account can be removed without explanation and without financial or legal remedy under these terms.
Users have no contractual right to notice, explanation, or appeal if Craigslist blocks, removes, or terminates their account, and the company explicitly disclaims any liability for moderation decisions, including decisions not to moderate harmful content.
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