Craiglist: Censored
- Started
- Last post
- 39 Responses
- ********
A day in history:
I noticed on craigslist today a big black box that reads "censored". Their adult services has been officially blocked after all the hoopla in the media. For many a big thumbs up, for others a big thumbs down in internet censorship.
Thoughts?
- Andrew_D0
I suppose that med school student killing hookers he met on there wasn't exactly the best press, but this does seems overboard. If you're selling sex, there's going to be some danger involved with your clientele, obviously.
It's shitty to censor it, but at the same time you have to protect your audience, I suppose. Where do you draw the line?
- utopian0
Casual encounters is still available, hip hop hooray.
- kgvs720
Prostitution has been on going for how long now? over 2000 years and apparently is an $100 billion+ industry.
Craigslist was one of their channels to broadcast. They'll find another way.
- ********0
*shrug
- HijoDMaite0
Can someone explain to me why my ad was removed? They flagged it on Wed and it was gone the next day. I didn't write about any illegal activities.
SE HABLA ESPANOL!! Cooper 400W MH Grow Light w/ Ballast Complete -- Made by Cooper Electric (Price negotiable) Model: MHSS40 Has Regular 120 Volt Cord (missing plug) This is NOT an Industrial Light – Rather it is a commercial Light Set with Ballast for Indoor Growing as it is NOT hard-wired... Plug it in and Grow!!! 120 Volt 60 Hz 4.0 Amps Use with Lamps 1000W Type M59 Email me with any questions and I will reply promptly. You can also call or text me at xxx-xxx-xxxx. Thank You Xxxxxx
- because you're promoting something illegal. Home grown food and herbs.********
- seriously it's BS and I wrote them and got no reply yet.
HijoDMaite - Gee I wonder why they wouldn't to be involved with this.********
- They can't just assume it's for illegal activity.HijoDMaite
- I don't see nothing wrong. Grow plants AFAIKkgvs72
- don't call it a GROW lamp.lambsy
- good point, thanks lambsy.HijoDMaite
- Hellooooo... there's tons of xx's in your ad. That means porn, right?Sandder
- because you're promoting something illegal. Home grown food and herbs.
- herzo0
What was there before censored? Never used CL that much except for housing.
- ukit0
Hot, hot women willing to do anything you dreamed of.
- sublocked0
So...anyone want to start a new web site? The hookers are just gonna move to another domain. :p
- ukit0
- ukit0
How can it be blocked anyway when every local free paper has a "Escorts" section?
- ********0
theres http://www.backpage.com for that filth and smut
- ********0
http://newyork.backpage.com/Fema… looking pretty healthy
- ********0
Craigslist is definitely making some sort of statement. They could have simply taken the link off the site, but they had to make a very distinguishable mark on the site...
- He should have made it a bright neon flash gif. Or better yet, like a Strip Club flashing light.instrmntl
- instrmntl0
I wonder if this is anyway toed to Apple and their battle with apps and appropriate material. I wouldn't be surprised.
- ukit0
Uhhh...how do you figure that? Apple doesn't control the world you know:D
- instrmntl0
There was an ongoing battle with Craigslist and Apple regarding their app.
- With their images in the personal ads.instrmntl
- http://www.tuaw.com/…instrmntl
- ukit0
http://arstechnica.com/tech-poli…
After months of pressure from state attorneys general, Craigslist pulled its adult services listings offline over the Labor Day weekend. Visitors to the site were greeted with a black bar with the word "censored" in white text (as seen to the right) where the link to the adult services listings would normally be.
The adult services listings have been a perpetual source of concern for law enforcement, including numerous state attorneys general, who have said that listings facilitate prostitution and that children are often victimized by the ads. Craigslist originally had an Erotic Services section, but shut it down in May 2009 in response to pressure from law enforcement. The company had previously attempted to stave off criticism by verifying listings over the phone and working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, but decided that having an entire section of the site devoted to the sex trade was a bad idea. Shortly after the erotic services section was yanked, it was replaced with the adult services section.
The new section, which required credit card payments for listings that were reviewed by moderators before going live, failed to mollify critics. The attorney general of Connecticut and 37 of his colleagues across the country subpoenaed the classified site over what they described as its brothel business. In late August, Kansas attorney general Steve Six called on Craigslist once again to shut down adult services, saying that the site had not done enough to fight "illegal sexual activity on the Internet."
