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In response to the passage of the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), Craigslist has removed Personals sections for U.S. users:
Classified advertising website Craigslist has closed its dating ads section in the US, in response to a new bill against sex trafficking.
The bill states that websites can now be punished for "facilitating" prostitution and sex trafficking.
Ads promoting prostitution and child sexual abuse have previously been posted in the "personals" section of Craigslist.
The company said keeping the section open in the US was too much of a risk.
In a statement, Craigslist said the new law would "subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully".
Reddit also took the opportunity to ban a number of subreddits (list not exhaustive), including some like /r/escorts, but many more broadly related to "transactions for goods and services".
Also at Ars Technica and The Verge.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:15PM
You're being too cynical. Freedom is not a Big Lie, it is an ideal we strive for, and don't always, perhaps only seldom reach.
Freedom can also be a tough call. When more freedom for one party means less freedom for another, how do you sort that one out? We have decided that freedom does not include the "freedom" to enslave another or own slaves, or to monopolize a market and price gouge. or steal. We're still arguing over lying. Misrepresenting a product is in principle not acceptable though frequently done, but saying "no" to "does this dress make me look fat?" is still acceptable and perhaps always should be, even when it's not true. But we're not lying about freedom, not merely full of talk and propaganda about it, not intentionally trying to deceive the world (they wouldn't be fooled anyway), or even ourselves.