I love the Craigslist example, this is exactly what happened to me; although it was not a scorned lover. This woman had posted many nasty and untrue things about me in the Erotica section of Craigslist. I started receiving many phone calls from same sex individuals asking if the ads were true, asking to hook up etc. I finally got one of those individuals to tel me where the ad was located, I also sent a notification to Craigs List via the approved method as described in this story. After a few hours of receiving calls I also contacted Craig and Clint Powell (his Cstr Svs Mgr), it took hours to finally have them remove the post. Built into Craigs List is a ability to remove posts by individuals but unless many people decide its offending that post is there to stay. Moral of this story, the post finally disappeared after hours of posts, emails, and trying to call Craigs List (do not suggest that either, even less helpful there). Hopefully with a new year we will have a year of better support for those individuals who are victims of either scorned lovers, Ex's or crude pranks. Its not Craig's (the man) fault for this problem; this responsibility lies on Clint and his staff of those who could care less.

I have read many comments but the one to always remember is sooooooo simple...
"Sticks and Stones may break your bones, but Words will never hurt you." Civil Liberties experts agree very difficult to regulate what could be considered opinion or free speech and attempts to muzzle are routinely thrown out of courts.

I've chanced occation to notify some web sites that the offending URL is a violation of my right to privacy and published without my expressed consent or approval. Followed that with just the mention of filing a liable suite against the web site and the URL and ISP of the poster is permanently blocked.

Worked both times I did it.