Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by Noos on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:40AM (#16657381)

Yes it's a bad idea.

Imagine we had legalized drugs, but barely anyone wanted to make them, because making them was nasty and degrading in a way that few people could even tolerate. No matter what you did, you simply couldn't find enough people willing to make them. Paying them more wont help, because beyond a certain point the nastiness of making them can't be washed away with money.

So the next step is coercing people to do so.

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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by AFNobody on Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:56AM (#16665247)

Except they could do that now (its called rape / sex slave trafficking) and the women would know it was safe to contact the police.

Part of the power of abusing people is taking away people's paperwork and convincing them the police won't help them.

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