Jennifer Holmes
9/15/2010
7:25 pm
An activist group is fighting Craigslist to cease all adult services ads around the world. The hearing is to explore child trafficking for slavery and prostitution through the internet in the United States. A little over a week ago Craigslist changed the adult services section and replacing it with the word “censored “. This action from the owner of Craigslist has not eliminated the site. The signers of the letter are saying that the adult section continues to be more part of the problem than the solution. Several attorneys have filed suit of Craigslist to stop allowing ads to be placed for adult services because this can lead to sex, violence and crimes against women and children.
As I search on Craigslist under the adult and erotic services section to see what the riot is all about. It states that you must be eighteen and agree to the terms and conditions so the craigslist is not held liable. So the real question is how they really know that you are eighteen proceeding to look for these types of services. I don’t think it is fair that they are pointing fingers at craigslist when there are many more different types of dating services out there. I think the only solution to this problem would be to eliminate all of these services because there is just too big of a risk. There are many different consequences that people are suffering from these services such as violence and crimes against women and children. So before you go on these sites think is it really worth risking my life over?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/09/pressure_grows_for_craigslist.html
1 comment:
I think that it is unfair that only craigslist is being held responsible for their censored section. If the government wants to eliminate the part of Craigslist that is for adults, then they should try an delete all of them on the internet. I agree with you that if you do one, then you have to do all of them. Also i think Craigslist is doing what they can to try and censor it for only adults, by making the visitors be eighteen or older. This is very interesting, and i will be interested to see where it leads.
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