Craigslist to drop personal ads after passage of sex trafficking bill - Sensationalist Headlines

Craigslist said it is dropping its personals section, citing the passage of a sex trafficking bill potentially leaving websites liable for penalties. The U.S. Senate voted 97-2 on Wednesday to pass the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which adds tougher penalties on web services that help facilitate prostitution or sex trafficking. According to the bill, victims can also seek civil damages for services.In a statement posted to the Craigslist website, the advertising service said it will take its personals section down."Any tool or service can be misused," read the statement. "We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services." On Thursday, Reddit announced changes made to its content policy forbidding transactions for certain goods and services, including firearms, drugs and "paid services involving physical sexual contact." USA Today

Closeted gay people and fetishists now cry. I wonder if this will mean Backpage.com will remove their escorts section.

wtf how will I find people to jack off to replenish the essence in my JO crystal

the end of an era

And there it is, the end of the "best of craigslist" section.

Pretty fucked up to oppress sex workers for the sake of "stopping sex trafficking."

You message people who rate you lucky

There's so much else that is so much more fucked up in this country right now, but you know, priorities.

I was wondering why I couldn't see if anyone loved me at work for no reason in missed connections today.

Good job. Now watch as it all gets moved to the darkweb and someone makes a pretty penny off all this.

So, it looks like the puritans managed to turn a anti-sex trafficking bill into an anti-prostitution bill. Good job dipshits.

What's the point in Craigslist anymore? It's a shit looking website and everything it does is done better elsewhere. Doesn't even have an Android/iPhone app. The dodgy personals section was the only thing going for it.

Cars/car part sales are actually pretty commonly done on Craigslist, actually.

The two historically cross paths rather frequently. I'm all for private people doing what they want, but there are private people that also abuse the system and use the legit stuff as cover.

Sex work is a legitimate business that most of these congressmen participate in I'd say on a regular basis I hope a supreme court challenge is struck soon

There goes my chance of meeting a dtf milf

Except there is no system and no legit stuff because it's already shamed and criminalized. It's already "back-alley" ways to do it. A system should be created. Support sex workers, tax sex work even, and provide actual ways for them to do their jobs. If you're going to take away their current methods, then provide an alternative, legitimate one. This isn't going to stop sex trafficking, it's going to just make it harder for the abusers to find a "market" for their victims. But guess what, the victims are still trapped. There's literally no reason not to legalize sex work other than holier-than-thou prudishness and a dash of misogyny.

It's still a great place to get cheap shit tho

Also can be done on eBay or any other classified site that once again has better design and usability.

Y'all are gonna laugh, but I met my wife through Craigslist personals. This is sad news.

is she a texas bbw?

Why yes, she is.

I dont think the personals deserved this... only because the soliciting for ACTUAL sexual shit can be found in the job sector under [tv/video] Everytime I go in there its : WEBCAM MODEL - GET PAID TO BE A SLUT NEED NAKED WOMEN FOR PORN SHOOT WEBCAM SEX BLAH BLAH that sounds more like a setup to be trafficked than a personals ad

i rated it late because this thread is over a month old

i know and thats fine - you dont have to explain that; rate away... But not everyone reads or watches the news. I just learned about this yesterday at work. I just wanted some conversation about it in terms of what I thought. I keep forgetting this is SH so I know who the crowd is.