Craigslist Censored
State Attorney’s General have been hard at work over the last couple of years trying to get Craigslist to shut down their adult services section. Their work payed off yesterday when Craigslist elected to censor itself. Censor is the key word because Craigslist clearly believes this is censorship.
The section was originally setup for consenting adults, but became heavily used by those in the sex industry. Now if you’ve ever read the classified sections of publications like the Village Voice, you know this was already going on. Craigslist just made it easier for sex workers; and law enforcement. Craigslist routinely cooperated with law enforcement, and became a tool to ferret out those who were involved in human trafficking.
Now those types of crimes will move underground to places law enforcement can’t access as easily. So when special interest groups and state AG’s are patting themselves on the back, they should remember that helping victims of human trafficking just got a lot harder. Grandstanding may be good for politics, but it just hurts people in the real world.