Does Craigslist discriminate?

Need a job, a date, a shady guy with a truck to cart away your home-renovation debris? The website craigslist.org helps folks in 190 U.S. and foreign cities find almost anything. It's also a cornucopia of classified ads that would never make it into your local paper. Here are a few listings that have appeared in the housing section on Craigslist's Chicago-area site: "Ladies Please Rent from Me," "Requirements: Clean Godly Christian Male" and "African Americans and Arabians tend to clash with me so that won't work out."

Offensive as these ads are, should Craigslist be liable for...

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