Craigslist Shuts Down Personals Section After Congress Passes Bill On Trafficking


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You can still find furniture or a roommate on Craigslist. But ads seeking romance or sexual connections are no longer going to be available, after Craigslist took down the "personals" section Friday for its U.S. site.

The company says it made the change because Congress has passed the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, meant to crack down on sex trafficking of children. It was approved by a landslide in the Senate earlier this week, as NPR's Alina Selyukh has reported, but has been met with criticism by free speech advocates and sex workers.

As Craigslist wrote, the law seeks "to subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully."

"Any tool or service can be misused," Craigslist said. "We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day."

The site added: "To the millions of spouses, partners and couples who met through craigslist, we wish you every happiness!"

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Closing down the personal sections on Craiglist won't stop sex trafficking .... it's a problem that's much more complicated than that.

And this is why Republicans are the biggest hypocrites .... this is big government, not small government as they claim.
 

tsugraytiger said:
Closing down the personal sections on Craiglist won't stop sex trafficking .... it's a problem that's much more complicated than that.

And this is why Republicans are the biggest hypocrites .... this is big government, not small government as they claim.
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It stops these popular websites from being a party to it and spreading it. They have done plenty to spread it to people who would not have accessed it otherwise.

Why would any legit website want to enable sex trafficking? :confused:
 
JAGCAT said:
It stops these popular websites from being a party to it and spreading it. They have done plenty to spread it to people who would not have accessed it otherwise.

Why would any legit website want to enable sex trafficking? :confused:
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The issue is that virtually any website can be used for that purpose, which is part of why this legislation does little to nothing to actually target trafficking. It's simply making the actual crimes less visible.
 
JAGCAT said:
It stops these popular websites from being a party to it and spreading it. They have done plenty to spread it to people who would not have accessed it otherwise.

Why would any legit website want to enable sex trafficking? :confused:
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As long as people exist, sex trafficking will thrive. And shutting down the personals on CL which most people didn't use illegally is so stupid, if anything they should be using it to catch sex traffickers.
 
Two scenarios...

1- Craigslist is removing personal ads because they don't want the risk of liability.
2- A college campus says no conservatives can speak there because they don't want the risk of violence and protests.

Are both of those actions curbing free speech?
 
JaguarNation99 said:
The issue is that virtually any website can be used for that purpose, which is part of why this legislation does little to nothing to actually target trafficking. It's simply making the actual crimes less visible.
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Right. Craigslist isn't any different from christian mingle, black people meet, plenty of fish, farmers only,match.com,etc. Shit happens anywhere
 
Hell these chicks will come to your house and sell the coochie. What fool would let them set you up at a hotel? Not to smart just saying......
 
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