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Craigslist Kills Erotic Services Ads, Will Launch Adult Section

Posted by timothy on from the everything-must-go-inventory-sale dept.

CWmike writes "Submitting to mounting legal pressure, Craigslist has announced that it will remove the Erotic Services category from its classified advertising Web site within seven days. The move comes just two and a half weeks after Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist, told Computerworld that the company had no intention of removing the category. While it's taking down the category, it will be launching a new category called Adult Services, for which each posting will be manually reviewed before it appears. 'Unsurprisingly, but completely contrary to some of the sensationalistic journalism we've seen these past few weeks, the record is clear that use of Craigslist classifieds is associated with far lower rates of violent crime than print classifieds, let alone rates of violent crime pertaining to American society as a whole,' said Buckmaster in a blog post today. 'We are optimistic that the new balance struck today will be an acceptable compromise from the perspective of the constituencies, and for the diverse US communities that value and rely upon Craigslist.'"

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  1. Okay, I suppose.... by Itninja · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...but when will they come to the light and stop using fricking Times New Roman??? Can a brother get some Veranda or Helvetica up in here? See reference material here.

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  2. Re:Not like it's going to make a difference by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...even the Church at one point allowed it.

    While I agree with you for the most part, I can't think of any time prostitution has been endorsed by the "Church", which by that I take it you mean the Christian church. Christians are supposed to abstain from sex outside of marriage.

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  3. Re:Not like it's going to make a difference by xonar · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    While I agree with you for the most part, I can't think of any time prostitution has been endorsed by the "Church", which by that I take it you mean the Christian church. Christians are supposed to abstain from sex outside of marriage.

    And yet if you do your history, the Roman Catholic church did (this was before ML).

    Protestants generally consider Catholics not to be Christians.

  4. Re:Not like it's going to make a difference by Itninja · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    BTWm your examples are pretty limited. Most prostitute do it for the money. At lest the none I have talked to. My mother use to run a brother in NV. So yeah, I actually do know a thing or three on how they work.

    Between the 'none' you have talked and your Mother running 'a brother' in Nevada, it's no wonder all your comments stay at 1 or less.

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  5. Re:Unemployment Rates by SupremoMan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Everyone loves censorship, if you had the power to censor anyone in the world, wouldn't you love it? There are quite a few people in the world I would love to shut the hell up for good.

  6. Re:Craigslist becomes censureship arm of governmen by infosinger · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just what you would expect from a bunch of Republicans. Oh, wait...