Craigslist...Where is the love?..."Craigslist drops personal ads..."

[uberman]

"Craigslist drops personal ads after passage of sex trafficking bill."

Looking for love or a “casual encounter”? You’ll have to find someplace other than Craigslist.

The venerable online classifieds site removed its “personals” section this week, after Congress sent a bill to President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing sex trafficking.

Craigslist, little changed since it unveiled its spare text design in 1995 and began to crush the paid print classifieds business, will no longer offer a way for anonymous people to connect for romance or sex...

http://www.phillytrib.com/news/busi...cle_c92c0299-adde-5cd7-9d0f-3f8715c83557.html

Discuss.

 

[mikeymikec]

It sounds like the usual overreach situation. Fully legalising and regulating prostitution is probably the only sensible way forward, any other solutions I've heard of simply deny the facts of the 'oldest profession'.

 

[DietDrThunder]

I no longer use Craigslist simply for the number of people that post or respond to ads that want to rip you off. Over the years there were several items that I wanted to sell and I listed them on Craigslist. At first I didn't have problems but in the last couple of years, the people you deal with have become more shady. I'm glad the local police now offer safe trade zones at their division or strip mall locations, but I've experienced more people that will not meet you there. Now I'm to the point where I don't believe it is worth the risk, and if it is to big to sell on ebay, or I can't trade it in, then I'll just donate it.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Cepak, it didn't mean 'personal ads'...it meant 'personal ads'.

 

[DietDrThunder]

Cepak, it didn't mean 'personal ads'...it meant 'personal ads'.

Now I see my misunderstanding.

 

[Exterous]

It sounds like the usual overreach situation. Fully legalising and regulating prostitution is probably the only sensible way forward, any other solutions I've heard of simply deny the facts of the 'oldest profession'.

Yep. Rhode Island showed a notable decrease in rapes, domestic abuse and STDs during the short period prostitution was accidentally legalized.

Besides all this does is move it to somewhere else and new code words will spring up somewhere else on craigslist