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Blogs > ShaunaODorothy > Serious Shauna O'Dorothy

Craigslist drops personal ads due to sex trafficking bill  

ShaunaODorothy 55T
19 posts
3/27/2018 12:53 pm
Craigslist drops personal ads due to sex trafficking bill
Craigslist drops personal ads due to sex trafficking bill - by Lia Eustachewich (New York Post) 23 March 2018

Craigslist has yanked its personal ads section in the wake of an anti-online sex trafficking bill that passed in Congress this week.

The Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA, makes websites criminally liable for content that its users post, including ads and sex-trafficking content.

Craigslist -- whose personals include bawdy categories such as casual encounters -- said it pulled ads because it wasn't worth running afoul of the new law.

"Any tool or can be misused," the website said in a statement. "We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other s, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day."

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

Reddit also banned sex-worker subreddits, including s, Male s, Hookers and Daddy, shortly after the bill was passed.

Previously, websites like Craigslist faced broad protections from legal liability for user-posted content.

FOSTA has been criticized by some lawmakers and sex workers for making it harder to combat sex trafficking.

"The failure to understand the technological side effects of this bill -- specifically that it will become harder to expose sex-traffickers, while hamstringing innovation -- will be something that this Congress will regret," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) told CNN earlier this month.

Wyden and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) voted against FOSTA, which passed 7-2 in the Senate on Wednesday. It is likely to be signed into law by President Trump.
redrockrascal 65M
23580 posts
3/27/2018 4:03 pm

 From the Congress website. I have added bold to emphasize

"This bill expresses the sense of Congress that section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 was not intended to provide legal protection to websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution and websites that facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale of unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking victims . Section 230 limits the legal liability of interactive computer service providers or users for content they publish that was created by others."

These site(s) don't knowingly; promote, facilitate, advertise sex trafficking - they do delete profiles the attempt to do so.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.


homegrown340 43M
17 posts
3/27/2018 2:20 pm

 There will always be other places to do it


homegrown340 43M
17 posts
3/27/2018 2:19 pm

 Fake news


Jake65714 68M
37 posts
3/27/2018 1:47 pm

 any other places that is a good substitute for Craigslist?


soulpole_0 35M
4 posts
3/27/2018 1:02 pm

 the bill doesnt make sense at all.


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