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I'm guessing that's because of AirBnB and how they got their start by essentially stealing posts from Craigslist.

I thought Padmapper got their start that way, by essentially providing a better apartment hunt interface than CL had at the time.

And they got the banhammer, too.

Not too hard to see where the fulcrum of this "settlement" is: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/padmapper-and-3taps-se...

Which was a shame, because padmapper stuck it on a map and linked to Craigslist, instead of just taking the content. If Google Maps did it nobody would think twice.

CraigsList might make them think twice. I don't think they want to overly exhaust their own resources, what they have works for them.

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