So, for those who don't know....

[kierthos]

Craigslist has dropped it's Adult Services section... at least if you're viewing it in the United States. If you're viewing it in Canada, well, it's still there.

You see, around a dozen and a half state Attorneys General thought that the Adult Services section on Craigslist was bad, mmmkay? And we can't have bad things on the Internet.

Never mind that the instances of child prostitution on Craigslist were largely apocryphal. Never mind that the closing of the Adult Services section has done, well, nothing to stop the online prostitution/escort advertisements on Craigslist, as they've mostly moved over to the Personals section.

And never mind that other sites (like Backpage.com) exist as well. Those state AGs have DONE SOMETHING. Probably "For The Children". And they should feel good, for the 1/20th of a second that they actually made a difference.

Comments

[jdack.livejournal.com]

See I don't get why this is the second time I'm hearing about this in a couple of days. Didn't they say they were doing this over a year ago?

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

It was over a year ago that the state AGs first started getting a case of the chapped ass over Craigslist having an Adult Services section. And Craigslist promised to do something about it then, and to the best of my knowledge, actually did tighten up on certain sorts of ads in that section.

Now it's a "Oh fuck it, here, we'll show you it won't make any difference" thing from Craigslist. Which, you know, it didn't. Most of the Adult Services listings are now showing up in the "Personals" section, or they've moved to other sites (or were there all along), thus proving that no one can stop sex on the Internet.