Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by cft on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:38AM (#16655115)

I wonder how long it will take to ban that too, like is Bitcoin ban imminent? Perhaps not a ban, but a legislation rendering it practically useless due to compliance burden. Modern congress now acts impulsively, fast, like in basketball.

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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by SN76477 on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:57AM (#16655195)

It is all impulse with zero long term goals in America.

This is infrastructure is poor in some places, some areas have failing infrastructure (such as flint MI)

These types of projects require an elected official to see beyond their term limits. Something few of them can do.

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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by huntermeyer on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:19AM (#16655286)

Members of the US Congress can serve unlimited terms.

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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by adventured on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:10AM (#16655764)

I'm guessing the parent comment meant their term.

i.e. see beyond the need to focus on short-term sugar highs for voters, to get re-elected every 2/4/6 years.

Politicians think short-term for the same reason public CEOs so often do: near-term placating to retain their position.

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