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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @05:23AM (11 children)
I don't know that you can blame the U.S. for continuing mankind's depraved history.
As stated, the first legally recognized slave owner in the colonies that would become the United States was a black man from Angola, Anthony Johnson; naturally, he had been enslaved by a rival tribe in Africa, and then sold to White Men as an indentured servant (much like how the Irish got to the Americas). Well, knowing about slavery rather than contractual, limited servitude, Mr. Johnson made sure that some of his servants had actually signed an agreement that they were SLAVES, which was ultimately upheld by a common law court.
So, what's my point? Well, you can't blame the U.S. for continuing an ancient tradition. If anything, you have to give credit to the U.S. and to White Men in particular for not only coming to the slave trade late, but also for ending the slave trade the world over (even going so far as to wage war with other White Men over the issue).
Same goes for the Injuns. They were conquered just as other people had been conquered in times past. Nevertheless, these days, they enjoy not only the freedoms that White Men have brought to the world, but special privileges in recognition of their past mistreatment.
So, fuck all of you.
Long live Uncle Sam. He's an asshole, but He's the best thing that ever happened to this fucking planet.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @05:49AM (10 children)
You absolutely can, because you can choose not to continue evil practices.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @05:50AM (7 children)
Despite the horrors perpetrated in American history, the U.S. still looks like a saint.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:10AM (5 children)
X being better than Y does not mean that X is good.
And no, that's not what the US did; for a long time, it had slavery. The US could have chosen not to have slavery at all, but it didn't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:25AM (4 children)
Slavery was already widespread by the time the United States was formed.
The "infamous" text of the Constitution equating a black slave to 2/3 a person was in fact an attempt to diminish the role of slavery in the Union: It diminished the influence that slaveholding States had on the Federal government.
That's what you mush-for-brains FUCKERS don't get. EVER. The United States was an ideal born in a world that was even WORSE than today.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:06AM (3 children)
Having slavery at all, in any form, is unacceptable, regardless of the circumstances. It doesn't matter how bad the world was.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:29AM (1 child)
... with regard to slavery, but much better with regard to so much more. THEN, America fixed the slavery issue; then, America fixed the segregation issue.
At all stages, the fault belonged to this one particular organization of violent Men, known as "government".
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday March 27 2018, @05:42PM
Do remember that the US was one of the LAST of the European dominated countries to prohibit slavery. I believe that at one point the only two European dominated countries to allow slavery were the US and Brazil. Of course, Russia had the Kulaks, but that's supposedly a step up from slavery, and Russia isn't exactly a part of the European civilization, despite being nominally a part of Europe. (Since I'm including the US on cultural grounds, I can exclude Russia on exactly those same grounds.)
That said, the US has been generally the most moral "world power" in history. And before them the British were the most moral "world power" in history. And before them the Catholic Church were the most moral "world power" in history. And before them the Romans were the most moral "world power" in history.
In each case you can point out horrendous flaws. None of them really lived up to their stated ideals. All of them were eventually wrecked by their flaws. The real times of trouble, though, are the times of transition between the "world powers". This is especially troubling now when the US is failing, China is rising, and weapons of mass destruction are so potent. This is one of they reasons I hope for a quick appearance of a strong AI. I give a 50% chance that humanity won't live through that transition, but I give a 60% chance that humanity won't live the transition of power between the US and China....and we'll eventually have to handle the transition to strong AI anyway.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:15PM
"having" slavery? your freedom is your responsibility. there is no higher authority to plead your case to. you can be delusional and plead to the government, but they are the most powerful slave master, so good luck with that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:47PM
And Jack the Ripper was a good guy because he's responsible for vastly less deaths than Hitler, right?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:26PM
Which the U.S. has done, relatively quickly as compared to most of history.
We can do better. We will always be able to do better. I want us to do better, faster than we are, but all in all, progress from 1776 to the present has been impressively fast as compared to 5000BC-1700.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:52PM
You mean how the US has done?