Craigslist shut down its Personals section!
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Penis — 8 years ago(March 24, 2018 06:14 AM)
Based on the message quoted above, it sounds like this is more about Craigslist not wanting to be held accountable if something bad happens after someone posts a personals ad. They shouldn't be held accountable in the first place. Obviously sex trafficking is bad, but how many ads on Craigslist really led to sex trafficking? I'm sure most most people who met via a Craigslist ad didn't do anything unlawful.
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Bongo — 8 years ago(March 24, 2018 06:21 AM)
Wow… you really have a problem with logic and connecting dots, don't you?
If all you're going to use to form your weak arguments is the stuff you posted in your OP, you're failing.
Read the article in the link I posted and inform yourself more fully.
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Penis — 8 years ago(March 24, 2018 09:55 AM)
I wasn't referring to the law or the article in my last post. I was referring Craigslist removing the personals section. In their message, it says, "We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline." That makes it clear that because of this law, the people who own Craigslist are concerned about being held accountable if something illegal happens if a criminal misuses the personals section, and since they don't want to lose the entire site because of that, they're removing the personals section.
If they were removing the personals section only because it might lead to sex trafficking, they would've removed the section a long time ago. They removed it now because that law passed and they could lose the site if sex traffickers use the personals section. The message doesn't say they're afraid the personals section is putting people at risk for sex trafficking. It only mentions the personals section possibly jeopardizing their entire site. It even says they hope they can bring the personals back someday.
People could be kidnapped and sold into the sex trade if they go pick up something they bought from someone on Craigslist or if they go to what they thought was a job interview they found in a Craigslist ad. Craigslist wouldn't be responsible if that happened and they're not responsible for criminals misusing the personals section either. If the law is expanded to include all classified ads, Craigslist will probably just shut down completely. -
Platonic_Caveman — 8 years ago(March 24, 2018 07:35 AM)
Bullshit. The federal government has no business dictating what private sites post. The responsibility is on the criminals themselves. That's like blaming a bank for a bank robbery.
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Bongo — 8 years ago(March 24, 2018 07:48 AM)
Sex and human trafficking is a huge industry and Craigslist was just one more
vehicle
for the traffickers to use to sell the children and women they kidnap and/or smuggle and hide in houses and force them into sexual slavery.
The bank comparison doesn't fly.
You might think differently about this if someone you know was tricked and kidnapped into sexual slavery through a Craigslist ad.
Getting these listings off Craigslist makes it a little more difficult for these monsters to do what they do, and that's a very good thing.
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Bongo — 8 years ago(March 24, 2018 08:03 AM)
They're not getting rid of Craigslist, they're getting rid of a section.
And nationwide, it would be vastly more than "a few criminals" misusing it.
Check this out:
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— 8 years ago(March 25, 2018 02:22 AM)Ha, if I go to CL the normal way, I get that message too. However, I removed the code that's blocking it, and I got it to show up. lol. However, there's not really a benefit to this considering no one's gonna post there anymore lol
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