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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:24AM (8 children)
Why do you keep with this straw man? It's already been explained to you.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:29AM (7 children)
No, you have repeatedly claimed that all contacts can self-support, through whatever arbitration is written in the contract.
What you haven't explained is what happens when one party, say, with its own army, refuses to pay/deliver on their side of the contract.
What is the person who didn't get their stuff to do? "Use the contract" to give paper cuts?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:32AM (6 children)
What is your point? Are you saying that a possible failure of the agreed system implies that we should just say "Fuck it. Let's government."???
You are saying that your government-based society is the failure mode of my contractual society. You exist in failure.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:45AM (5 children)
Every contract has "failure clauses", usually called "disputes"
These specify how the parties will resolve any disagreements.
Yes, government is the "failure" mode support, just like error traps in code.
You still have not specified how disputes would be resolved, when that is what government, judiciary, etc *does*.
There has to be a failure mode, because humans are sneaky, lying bastards, especially when they think they can get away with it, and corporations ar even worse.
If you can write bug-free code, it will still crash eventually. Perfect contracts can still be ignored.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @08:06AM (1 child)
Government doesn't solve this problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:59PM
Government does solve this problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:12PM (1 child)
have you not heard of smart contracts?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @05:55PM
Will we need smart guns that only operate when a smart contract says they can?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @05:48PM
I prefer to imagine that this is just a troll trying to collect internet trophies, in this case getting every user of the site to argue against the stupidity of "series of contracts". The troll coooould be serious, but given the simplistic responses it is clear there is no real reasoning beyond blind faith in "market forces".