Ha ha ha I say this as a joke, but there definitely is truth to it.
The greatest disservice the hobbyist community of the Dade, Broward and Palm Beach areas ever allowed is the control of the share of info, for profit and to have a curtailment of freedom of speech.
All across USA are those protesting Wall street. They are basically saying they are the 99% and our government has previously catered to the 1%. That is the rich fat cats of Wall street. The 99% want fair representation of who they are and do not desire for actions that benefit the 1% while over looking the 99%.
In reality, in the local tri-county area, it is worst than the 99%. It is more like the 9999%, because the 1% who controls the reins of all communication of the 9999%, has just that power and the hobbyist community should never have allowed that to happen.
Why should that have never been allowed to happen?
Because this less than 1%, which is actually really only one person, has too great a power over what the 9999% can and can not say.
Also, if this one person, who is really less than the 1%, ever died or had the plug pulled on his rein, the 99% would be left high and dry, no different than when CL adult ads vanished over night.
Competition is a good thing. If there is one escort agency that you do not like, you simply do not patronize them and call one of the other dozens of agencies.
If there is an individual escort that you are not fond of, you simply do not call her and call a different escort.
However, when one person has been allowed to control the reins of every person of a community and that one person can at his free will decide if hundreds or thousands of hobbyists can not participate with in this medium of communication, then this one person or entity gives it self too much power or control over the whole community at large.
If you do not like Donald Trump, you have free will to not purchase one of his properties. However, if Donald Trump is the only land lord or seller of property, then it is more or less a dictatorship and that one person (Donald Trump in this case) has too much control over the industry.
There are hundreds to thousands of local hobbyists in the Fort Lauderdale tri-county region who are highly esteemed members of our community who do not participate as actively because of the 1% who controls the conveyance of communication.
These hundreds to thousands of good, upstanding hobbyists are of the 99% and because of a decision of the less than 1%, these hobbyists do not get to communicate with the 99% community.
It is almost comical to observe, but it really isn't comical, how in real life in USA, the democrats and the republicans have two different perceptions of life and how society should be run.
Here you have a democrat president who implements his decision on how to spend money or do some thing and you have a republican congress who constantly rejects every thought the democratic president comes up with. Only in America. Well not really, but it is our system of checks and balances. This prevents one person from having too much control of the masses.
There really needs to be a half dozen or so local escort review boards that are of similar volume and readership to represent the local escort / hobbyist community. Short of that, too much power is given to 1, 2 or 3 people, over the entire community. THAT should never have been allowed to happen.
There was a time and day when only two things would get a person banned. That is outing or threats of violence. Currently there are hundreds to thousands of local members of our community who are big time hobbyists or escorts and they are banned from participating in the largest forum, not due to outing or threats of physical violence. That is not right and that gives too much control to the less than 1%.
This hobby is not down due to the current depressed economy. There are thousands and millions of dollars local hobbyists could be spending. The less than 1% is preventing this from happening. The less than one percent is EXCLUSIVELY gearing the hobby towards what will benefit the one percent financially.
In other words, the less than one percents sole motivation for this hobby is personal financial profit and they could really care less about the hobby of Johns and escorts, except for lining this one percents pocket with cash.
The hobbyist community as a whole is at fault for allowing one person or less than one percent to have too much control over the whole hobbyist community at large. In real life, wars are faught over such inequalities. Hitler had his personal way of dealing with what he felt was the problem. Countries who prefer freedom and democracy, choose capitalism as opposed to communism and dictatorship.
The CL (craigslist.com) forums are run via the 99% and not the 1%. Their motivation is not for profit of the 1%, but for benefit of the 99%. It is the 99% who control the flagging of posts to be removed and the 99% who control what gets posted.
When the less than 1% has 25% or more control over freedom of speech of the 99%, there is a problem.
Personally, I have benefited financially via the way things currently are structured, so my complaint is not for MY personal benefit. I am a big time contributor to the community as a whole. My complaint is that the community as a whole made a big time error in allowing almost exclusive communication to be held via the less than 1% and to add insult to injury, the less than 1% is not or are not REALLY hobbyists, but are exclusively motivated via financial profit. THAT is a lop sided gig, when hundreds or thousands of TRUE hobbyists are expelled from participating in OUR hobby via the less than 1% who are exclusively motivated for financial profit.
The 99% should take the reins and control the 1%. Especially when the hobby is enjoyed via the 99% and not via the 1%.