Craigslist drops online Red Light District
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal called Craigslist ‘erotic services’ listings a ‘blatant Internet brothel’.
Now Craigslist will replace them with a section where ads are “individually checked” by employees before they’re posted, says CNN.
Craigslist representatives met in New York with Blumenthal and the attorneys general of Missouri and Illinois, “all of whom asked the company to shut down its ‘erotic services’ sections in their states,” says the story
Cook County, Illinois, Sheriff Thomas Dart called Craigslist “the single largest source of prostitution in the nation,” the story says, quoting Blumenthal as saying:
“I was informed by Craigslist late last night that it will eliminate the ‘erotic services’ section within seven days, create a new section called ‘adult services’ and manually review every ad posted there to bar flagrant prostitution and pornography.”
CNN – Official: Craigslist to replace ‘blatant Internet brothel’, May 13, 2009
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May 14th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
If consenting, legal age adults wish to sell sex, and consenting legal age adults wish to
pay for it, there should be no law against it. If it were legalized and regulated ( like the
porn industry ) another black market would disappear, and tax revenues appear.
War on drugs, War on Sex, War on Terror ?
It’s just a War on common sense.
common sense is losing.
May 15th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Just because US officials do not like it shouldn’t mean that craigslist has to shut it down on the canadian portion ofthe site. It’s obvious in America to do it….Craigslist killing, high school and college shootings, shopping mall shootings. Whats next?