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07.04.20, 02:10 AM General Topics
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Why is Urban Baby shutting down? Is it because CBS no longer wants to be associated with the entitlement demonstrated here? [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 07.04.20, 02:10 AM Flag
 

Dear UrbanBaby community,

Thank you so much for being a valued member of the UrbanBaby community. We wanted to inform you that we are shutting down the site on July 6th. We are grateful for your participation and support that has helped make UrbanBaby such an important resource to parents for many years.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can email us at urbanbaby-support@cbsinteractive.com.

Thanks so much,

UrbanBaby Support

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I think it's more political than that, as paranoid as that sounds. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.04.20, 02:23 AM Flag
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Somebody in corporate decided it's not worth monetizing/administrating. The bigger numbers might be the legal risk of having us all on here anonymously? What if we were fomenting revolution?! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.04.20, 03:30 AM Flag
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I thought it was because of finances. Probably not enough traffic to maintain the site and pay the moderators (who have been pretty involved lately imo). [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.04.20, 04:20 AM Flag
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I think it's probably just not worth the money and effort to maintain it and deal with the potential liability. the trump admin is trying to push through a removal of the CDA 230 law which is the law that protects the hosts of sites like UB from liability if something illegal is posted here. it's not a good time to be in the business of hosting user generated content unless you are a huge company with teams of lawyers like FB [ Reply | More
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General Topics 07.04.20, 07:07 AM Flag
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