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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: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:32AM
That sort of persecution is codified among them, as well as Israel, China, India, and many other countries the world over.
Some of them are more overt about it, others more covert, but it is there nonetheless.
That said, slavery in the colonies/US was in fact pushback against people wanting fair labor practices for indentured servants, who were supposed to pay out of their contracts over a period of time, but whose 'debtors' often found creative ways to increase their debt or reduce their wages so they could effectively never get out. Slavery as an American insitution was pushback over fixes to the indentured servitude laws leading to both non-Christian native americans as well as africans being enslaved. AFAIK the only people who were initially excluded were christians because it went against their interpretation of the bible.
My point with this is slavery just gave way to company towns and unfair labor practices in factories, then undocumented immigrants in the modern era. Soon enough it will pass to the non-independently wealth, and anyone who can't steal/defraud their way into the management class will find themselves toiling in exactly the sort of slavelike conditions each of these former groups have endured, maybe with less whipping, or less of their debt owned by a single party, but no more able to freely change jobs or locations than their forebearers were due to the power imbalance between the 'owners' and the 'working class'. Gee.
Ironically enough the same problem exists in all the so-called 'communist' countries, none of which are except in their spats with the 'capitalist pigs' in order to keep the underrepresented hating each other across their borders when they should really be banding together as the teeming mass of peasants against the kings, queens, oligarchs and merchant princes who lord the means of subsistence above them, dragging the bar ever higher as they keep more of the pie to themselves while the rest struggle or perish.