CL is free and arms-length for rentals, while AirBnB is an active broker and financial participant in their rentals.

Are you kidding me? I read about the craigslist killings from every major media source that exists. ABNB is mostly in tech crunch, so far, and most of the heat they're taking isn't even about the fact that it happened as it is about their hamhanded response.

The difference is that airbnb takes 30% of the transaction fees and sounded it was safe everywhere in its website when it is clearly not.

CL doesn't do everything they possibly can to keep hosts from doing due diligence on their renters.