Can we perhaps edit "singularity is near" out of the title? This sounds impressive, but having a bunch of racks able to classify the outline of a face is vastly disconnected from machine and humanity merging.

This is just offensive.

It would be one thing if Craigslist was doing their best to satisfy their customers and they wanted to shut down others who were scraping their site and leeching off their business. However, Craigslist puts absolutely no effort into making their product usable. The continued existence of Craigslist is just a testimony to the enormous strength of network effect lock in.

> It's a very specific concept from the United States Constitution

This is completely incorrect, and it's a little insulting to the users here who aren't American.

Freedom of speech is a value with broad applicability. The United States Constitution enshrines a right to free speech as a limitation of government power, fine, but they don't have a monopoly on the idea. Relative freedom of speech is a characteristic of every forum in which speech and the suppression of speech are possible.

Banning users of a forum limits freedom of speech, removing commentary that goes off-topic limits freedom of speech. Forums are often quite free to set their own rules about who is allowed to say what, and users are often free to choose the forums they frequent, but that's mostly beside the point - speech within any particular forum is free to a given extent, and some people (be they owners, operators, users, whatever) believe that this freedom is intrinsically valuable.

(I don't really see this one as a free speech issue myself - to me, this one is about the credit card company preserving their brand integrity.)

Love this snippet:

> > Please escalate this to someone who can answer the question as to why this was changed. -- endosquid at endosquid dot com

> Escalate? Oh how I wish I had someone to escalate to. -- rasmus@php.net