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Craigslist Removes Personals Sections in the U.S.

posted by chromas on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:02AM   
from the too-risky-to-keep-running-the-dept-generating dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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• Re:Those were Progressive policies, not American.(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:57AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:57AM (#658881)

  You're one of those simple-minded fucks who has been brainwashed by reading "Atlas Shrugged", and concluding it was some sort of primer for society ;
  that is painfully obvious.

  Fortunately for the rest of us, you are not in a position to affect any policy that matters, and you never will be, because you're too stupid.

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