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Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by puzzle »

cft wrote: post #5
seibelj wrote: post #3

Obviously driving prostitution underground and out of reach of researchers will improve the lives of sex workers. Prostitution is a very recent industry and was invented by the internet

I know several people who met and got married with children on CL. It was a normal dating site, and it also has(d) "strictly platonic" and "missed connections"- all of it is shut down now. Are dating sites/Tinder next? We will miss the days when internet wasn't like cable TV.

Missed connections seems to have moved to "Community". [edit: moved as in "CL took it out of personals and relocated it altogether", not that users repurposed an existing forum]

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by [deleted] »

puzzle wrote: post #11
cft wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know several people who met and got married with children on CL. It was a normal dating site, and it also has(d) "strictly platonic" and "missed connections"- all of it is shut down now. Are dating sites/Tinder next? We will miss the days when internet wasn't like cable TV.

Missed connections seems to have moved to "Community". [edit: moved as in "CL took it out of personals and relocated it altogether", not that users repurposed an existing forum]

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Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by smt88 »

post_break wrote: post #6

How soon will reddit follow? The great purge has started. Guns removed from YouTube and reddit. Now meet up portions are being nuked.

Guns removed from YT and reddit are totally different. They're corporations choosing to ban certain content from their own platform.

Craigslist is responding to a change in the law, which isn't comparable.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by smt88 »

I hope a lawyer will chime in, because this seems pretty obviously to be an indefensible law.

If you make analogies to other services, the justification falls apart. Are landlords responsible for weed dealers' business cards stuck to peg boards? Is USPS responsible for people mailing bombs?

Even under DMCA, no public/high-traffic communication service is responsible for its users this way.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by joering2 »

This is why we need ows to make top alexia websits a utility!!

Imagine your electric provider cutting off your juice because CEO happen to be pro ozon layer guy and believes your fridge is too old and takes too much energy. Or your water company doesnt like you to wash your dog in your bathtub and cuts our water off suggesting t do that in your back yard. Or gas company does a survey and disagree that you cook lamb meat at home and shuts your gas, sggesting to switch to cooking poultry.

As billions of people visit these websites, they start to be super cruicial to quality of peoples lives! You can say “you gut cut off youtube go somewhere else”. There is nowhere to go! Same with other major sites.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by InternetUser »

post_break wrote: post #6

How soon will reddit follow? The great purge has started. Guns removed from YouTube and reddit. Now meet up portions are being nuked.

If you mean Reddit's Personals, a major difference is that the posts don't use pictures--and it's not like the posters use their first and last name as their username or anywhere in their post--so hopefully that'll keep it safe. After all, the main personals section has "148,372 readers" and right now, as of 11:57 PM Eastern Time, "1,946" are logged in. https://www.reddit.com/r/r4r/

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by cft »

joering2 wrote: post #15

This is why we need ows to make top alexia websits a utility!! Imagine your electric provider cutting off your juice because CEO happen to be pro ozon layer guy and believes your fridge is too old and takes too much energy. Or your water company doesnt like you to wash your dog in your bathtub and cuts our water off suggesting t do that in your back yard. Or gas company does a survey and disagree that you cook lamb m…

Do you think ozonE was created by an act of Congress, like FOSTA? It's a business move to avoid legal liability.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by zrobotics »

InternetUser wrote: post #16
post_break wrote: post #6

How soon will reddit follow? The great purge has started. Guns removed from YouTube and reddit. Now meet up portions are being nuked.

If you mean Reddit's Personals, a major difference is that the posts don't use pictures--and it's not like the posters use their first and last name as their username or anywhere in their post--so hopefully that'll keep it safe. After all, the main personals section has "148,372 readers" and right now, as of 11:57 PM Eastern Time, "1,946" are logged in. https://www.reddit.com/r/r4r/

Curious here, how does lack of pictures or first/last name have any bearing here? From what I understand, any of these reasons could also apply to reddit as well.
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