Online freedom advocate backs Craigslist in battle over ‘adult services’ ads

Electronic Freedom Foundation’s senior staff attorney says that Craigslist has cooperated with law enforcement in identifying sex traffickers operating on its site and should not be bullied by threats from state attorneys general into compromising Internet freedom. -db Electronic Freedom Foundation Commentary September 8, 2010 By Matt Zimmerman On Saturday, after years of pressure from [...]

Adult services ads: Some see Craigslist shut down as tactic

Analysts say that by shutting its adult services section, Craigslist may be playing to public opinion while considering its options. -db The New York Times September 5, 2010 By Claire Cain Miller SAN FRANCISCO — Craigslist, by shutting off its “adult services” section and slapping a “censored” label in its place, may be engaging in [...]

Craigslist drops adult services section

Craigslist removed its website sexual ads last week, replacing the link with the word “censored.” -db San Francisco Chronicle September 5, 2010 By James Temple SAN FRANCISCO – After years of mounting public pressure, Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a battle over sexual ads on its website that some viewed as a test case [...]

First Amendment Kiss-Off** to Craigslist

A First Amendment kiss-off**  to Craigslist, which is resisting the demands of seventeen state attorneys general (but not including California’s Jerry Brown) that it shut down the website’s “adult services” section because, claim the AGs, it continues to promote prostitution and child-trafficking despite the site owners’ introduction of vetting (by lawyers, no less!) of sexually-oriented [...]

Attorneys general pressure Craigslist to remove adult service ad section

Attorneys general in seventeen states have asked Craigslist to disband its adult services section on its website since it cannot block illegal ads on the site promoting prostitution and child trafficking. -db San Francisco Chronicle August 25, 2010 By Everton Bailey Jr. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – San Francisco-based Craigslist should remove its adult services section [...]