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Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads
The New York Times reports that Craigslist has reached an agreement with 40 state attorneys general to tame its notoriously unruly "erotic services" listings. Clever diplomacy: according to the article, Craigslist "said that it will charge erotic services vendors a small fee for each ad — about $10, Mr. Buckmaster said — and require that they use a credit card for the payment. It will donate the money to charities that combat child exploitation and human trafficking. This, theoretically, will let the company confirm not just a phone number but also an identity." I hope they work on cleaning the weird spammers from the ordinary personal ads, too.
Amen. The spammers from the ordinary personal adds are really dirty and urgently require cleaning of any kind. You'd think these guys are allergic to showers...
The last line in the article is awesome: "There are very few prostitutes who want to be called by Craigslist and asked to give additional identifying information."
This immediately made me think 'so you are saying that some prostitutes want Craigslist to call them?'. Now that's kinky.
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As long as they don't mess with continued additions to the best of craigslist I'm ok with the changes
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
I'm sure there's a joke right there ...
If I was witty I'd put something funny here but, as it stands, I am not and have just wasted seconds of your life
If they are donating money to a charity to combat child exploitation, can we please have that charity fight the constant "think of the kids", "harm to kids", "oh noes, kids might see this" exploitation?
Their motto should be a George Carlin quote: "Fuck the children!"
It's okay, you can tell us, which one is it? http://slashdot.org/~religious+freak/friends/
... how many /.ers are pro prostitute.
On second thought it is kind of hard to get a date when you're living in your mom's basement.
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H
The illegality of each of those things is negative. So, when you multiply them together, you are bound to wind up with a result that has positive illegality, duh. It's pretty basic arithmetic. Of course, it does lead to the little known fact that doing any two legal things together is illegal. Aside from selling fucking, driving while blindfolded is another relatively obvious example. Most minor cases of doing two legal things at the same time are never prosecuted, but standing while muttering is technically not legal, thanks to math.
Of course, the circumvent the issue, you just need to do a third legal thing while you whore yourself out, like read a book. Then the extra minus sign multiplies through and they can't do anything to you.
There goes my social life.
Well, I doubt they're allergic to golden showers. :-)
Don't forget "is".
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...CraigsList will be sending their representatives wearing big floppy hats, full length fur coats and numerous gold chains around to collect their fee from erotic service workers.
Have gnu, will travel.
Pffff, making it illegal makes it less susceptible to criminal influence, just like booze.
Would I have had better luck with a car analogy?
Yes. What you did was like slowing down the car with the handbrake instead of downshifting.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
I'm willing to bet that criminal market would be exactly as big as it is today.
So, even though prostitutes wouldn't have to spend precious time and resources looking over their shoulder, getting arrested, going to court, going to prison, going to halfway houses, being able to file charges on their pimp should they still bother to have one, NOTHING will change? I think you need to show your work there.
We do have a duty to reduce activity that harms others
It would also be nice if we didn't enact laws that do exactly the thing they're "supposed" to be protecting. Awww, who am I kidding, let's just go ban something else!
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
So I guess this would count as a 'gaming partner'?
I disagree. With a prostitute you get something for your money.
remember that these women are earning thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars a month for basically unskilled labor.
Unskilled???
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/cht/654534964.html
It got chilly in here all of a sudden. BRB, someone just entered through my back do@%
Because it undermines the Church's attempt to monopolize men's source of pussy.
So true. But also other women of the non-prostitute variety, would also like to control men's access to pussy.
Which is why many of them look at prostitutes as if they were scabs crossing a picket line.
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Oh thanks a lot; now I'm going to have a pain in my neck and that song stuck in my head the rest of the day.