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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by threatofrain on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:19AM (#16655799)
But if people are content to swat away a problem until they can't see it anymore, despite that the ignored causes continues to generate more misery, then it's hard to be sympathetic to that defensible position. Especially since a lot of people just lost access to romantic venues because a minority of users make a living through sex.
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by pbhjpbhj on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:05AM (#16656774)
> because a minority of users make a living through sex. //

So you deny there is trafficking of people as sex slaves? Or that particular sites enable it? Or?

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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by TeMPOraL on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:20AM (#16657204)
I think the point is: imagine government banned bars, because some percentage of rapes involve perpetrators stalking victims in bars and getting them drunk.
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by Bartweiss on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:10PM (#16659534)
Perhaps more directly - if we're trying to stop sex trafficking by shutting down the places where victims meet clients, we're going to have to ban streets.
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by Fjolsvith on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:50AM (#16658068)
Or why can't we ban churches because pastors can use them to rape or molest church members?
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by lagadu on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:05AM (#16658863)
Most monetary transactions involving victims of sex slaves involve money, should we remove it too?

He's saying that this affects far more legitimate users than sex traffickers by multiple orders of magnitude, while at the same time not preventing sex trafficking from taking place anyway.

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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by pixl97 on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:01PM (#16660180)
No, no, we don't ban money, we just move to systems where the government gets to monitor all your financial transactions in real time and they get to selectively block those they don't find morally wholesome.
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