March 28, 2024, 06:09:09 PM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: NEW CHILD BOARD CREATED IN THE POLITICAL SECTION FOR THE 2016 ELECTION
 
   Home   Help Login Register  
Pages: 1   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: Craigslist removes adult services section  (Read 3155 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Edward
Monkey Junky
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 3816



« on: September 04, 2010, 03:31:29 PM »


Craigslist removes adult services section
Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section.

The section had been replaced Saturday by a black and white "censored" logo.

Craigslist did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, one of the AGs who pressed for the change, said in a written statement that he welcomed the change and was trying to verify Craigslist's official policy going forward.

He said if it was doing the right thing voluntarily in response to the AGs, it could set a good example for others.

In an Aug. 24 letter, the state attorneys general said Craigslist should remove the section because it couldn't adequately block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking.


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Craigslist-removes-adult-apf-4292182881.html?x=0


Some prostitutes are victims of forced human servitude. They may have been victims of kidnap or coerced or threatened into performance. Violent Pimps move there victims around that nation all the time and they use Craigslist when they move prostitutes to another city and post adds for the females or males with a photo.. This allows others that seek to find victims, like private investigators or law enforcement a method of tracking and eventually locating a victim... As proof of that many people have already been prosecuted for pimping others "such as minors" after being caught marketing there victim on Craigslist.
Craigslist has been a help to law enforcement. Not an adversary.
Shutting down the Craigslist adult section just pushes prostitution back onto the streets and bars. For those people that seek to find victims this is a terrible move. It would almost appear that law enforcement is helping and supporting Violent Pimps by closing down this venue.
Without a doubt there are many women and men that enjoy prostitution as a form of income without being forced into it. This has been going on for all of time and I do not believe it should be an illegal service. So make it legal and make all of it above board for health reasons and taxation. Craiglist just needs to add an adult sign up so that this section remains out of view to minors and other adults that do not agree with prostitution for what ever ignorant reason that they alone possess.
jmho
Logged
Nut44x4
Maine - USA
Global Moderator
Monkey Mega Star
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 18800


RIP Grumpy Cat :( I will miss you.


« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2010, 07:43:48 AM »

I wasn't sure where to put this........

USA TODAY 
September 30, 2010 Thursday
 
New efforts target child sex trafficking;
More groups and activists band together
 
A crackdown on child sex trafficking is being pushed by a growing movement of women's groups, celebrities, human rights activists and state officials.

This month, 22 state attorneys general called on Backpage.com, a classified-ad website, to close its adult-services ads after Craigslist was prodded to do so.

In New York City last week, actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher announced their "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" campaign against child sex trafficking at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting.

In St. Louis, a lawsuit was filed against Backpage.com, claiming it helped a pimp prostitute a 14-year-old girl.

The new efforts paint child prostitution as modern-day slavery, arguing it's a human rights issue rather than a free-speech one. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children estimates that at least 100,000 American children are victimized each year, often beginning at ages 11 to 14, by criminal networks.

"These children have been traumatized, brainwashed and abandoned and need specialized resources for a successful recovery," Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., said at a recent House hearing.

"We have more data and more momentum," says Deborah Richardson of the Women's Funding Network, which helps abused women. Her group financed a study of three states where it's helping to fight the problem -- New York, Michigan and Minnesota -- and found the number of girls trafficked through online classifieds and escort services rose at least 20% from February through August.

"Non-governmental groups and activists have started to coalesce much more," says Samantha Vardaman of Shared Hope International, a group that fights sex trafficking. Five years ago, she says, people didn't understand how online classifieds contributed to child prostitution. After all, she says, "I sold my couch on Craigslist. It was so accessible."

The groups worked with state attorneys general to pressure Craigslist to remove its adult-services ads, which it did Sept. 3.

"Adult-services sections are little more than online brothels," Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said last week in announcing a similar appeal to Backpage.com, owned by Village Voice Media.

Backpage.com said in an online statement that it "respectfully declines the recent demand." It said attorneys general are shifting blame "from criminal predators to a legal business operator in an apparent attempt to capitalize on political opportunity."

Craigslist was on track to earn $44 million on adult-services ads this year before terminating them, and Village Voice Media is on track to earn $17.5 million, according to AIM Group, classified advertising consultants.

Stopping the ads will hurt efforts to eradicate child trafficking, Craigslist executive William "Clint" Powell told the House Judiciary Committee Sept. 15. "Those who formerly posted adult-services ads on Craigslist will now advertise at countless other venues," he said, adding that Craigslist worked with police and turned over credit card information of people accused of crimes.

Jason Schultz, assistant professor at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, says lawsuits that accuse a publication of aiding child prostitution often fail, because courts traditionally cite the First Amendment's protection of free expression.

"Present law is outdated and needs revision," Blumenthal says. "I support changes clarifying and strengthening the law to hold websites accountable when they knowingly enable or promote illegal activity."
 
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:1273598547&start=4
Logged

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware/Of giving your heart to a dog to tear  -- Rudyard Kipling

One who doesn't trust is never deceived...

'I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind' -Edgar Allen Poe
Pages: 1   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Use of this web site in any manner signifies unconditional acceptance, without exception, of our terms of use.
Powered by SMF 1.1.13 | SMF © 2006-2011, Simple Machines LLC
 
Page created in 2.322 seconds with 21 queries.