Connecticut's top law enforcement official called for online classifieds website Craigslist to confirm that it has permanently closed its "adult services" listings.
Craigslist's Adult Services section may be gone after pressure from 17 state attorneys general, but was the site's apparent decision to self-censor a good idea?
Online classified service Craigslist's decision to censor its adult services section could be a model for other websites, a leader in the fight against prostitution ads said Saturday.
Listen to the Audio The world's largest classified ads website, Craigslist.org, shut down its profitable adult services section after accusations that it was being used for prostitution and human trafficking. Judy Woodruff gets two views on the larger legal impact. JUDY WOODRUFF: For 50 million Americans, the world's largest classified Web site, Craigslist.org, is the place to go to swap ...
Three days after Craigslist shut down its adult services section, replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored," Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called for the site to permanently shut down the section, eradicate prostitution ads from other parts of the site, and put "people above profits."
Despite Voluntarily Censoring Its Adult Services Section, Some of the Ads Have Been Found on the Site
Mainstream media outlets gave Craigslist a lot of attention over the weekend after the online classifieds site made its adult services ads unavailable for viewing - even the evening news programs from the networks featured the story.
SAN FRANCISCO: Connecticut’s top law enforcement official on Tuesday called for online classifieds website Craigslist to confirm that it has permanently closed its “adult services” listings.
Mass litigation lawsuits target people who allegedly pirated copyrighted movies through the peer-to-peer network.
Three days after Craigslist shut down its adult services section, replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored," Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is pushing the online commerce site for answers.
Legal affairs writer Brendan Kearney will be providing live coverage of the debate between Baltimore City State’s Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy and her primary opponents, Gregg Bernstein and Sheryl Lansey, at the University of Baltimore School of Law, Tuesday night from 5:00 to 7:00. To read his posts, click here for our law blog, [...]
Craigslist closed the adult services section of its website Saturday, replacing it with a black bar that says "censored," just over a week after a group of state attorneys general said there weren't enough protections against blocking potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution.
A Craigslist spokeswoman did not immediately respond to emails from The Canadian Press requesting comment.
Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult-services section Sept. 4 and replacing it with a black bar that simply says “censored.”
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