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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 flamedoge »

dahdum wrote: post #51
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.

They’ve already started banning all the subs about escorts, prostitution, sugar daddies, etcetera today in response. Also subs like BeerTrade, BazaarMarkets , and other marketplaces. Say goodbye to an era. I’m sure many more will get the axe over time.

decentralized network can't come soon enough. I foresee YC, Reddit, Youtube, FB, and alike get supplanted by technology that has no ownership.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by ShabbosGoy »

dahdum wrote: post #51
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.

They’ve already started banning all the subs about escorts, prostitution, sugar daddies, etcetera today in response. Also subs like BeerTrade, BazaarMarkets , and other marketplaces. Say goodbye to an era. I’m sure many more will get the axe over time.

A lot of the drug related subreddits were about harm reduction, especially finding reputable suppliers for psychedelics. This is book burning, plain and simple. It starts out with the unsavory books.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by [deleted] »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #60
thrden wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately we've had a very poor week for internet freedom. However much of it has been the result of corporate overreach. This week: Reddit bans Cigar, beer and Alchohol trading subreddits, toy bb gun sales, and gun related coupon clippers Youtube (and facebook?) banned Channels featuring guns they deem inappropriate. Including videos regarding proper safety and maintenance. It has become clear to be that the int…

I think we need to start using the book burning metaphor. Google, Facebook, et al are doing the modern equivalent of burning books. The government shouldn't stop private individuals from burning books, but the public should recoil in horror.

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Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by crispyporkbites »

> The bill amends the federal criminal code to add a new section that imposes penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both—on a person who, using a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, owns, manages, or operates an interactive computer service (or attempts or conspires to do so) to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person.

How do you define promoting or facilitating prostitution? Eg. Does WhatsApp fall foul of this? Email? Basically any communication service can be used for this...

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by Consultant32452 »

aaronrenoir wrote: post #4

For a good time respond to this post and we can make financial arrangements ;)

I'm willing to gift you 10 roses per hour of time together. But I'm paying for your company only. If we choose to voluntarily play hide the bologna then that's our personal business. No dirty talk on the phone and no blocked numbers please.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by quotemstr »

I am fucking sick and fucking tired of people interfering with the free choice of individuals in any effort to "fix" society and "help" people.

Lawmakers and advocates, have some epistemic humility and acknowledge that your own perspective may be mistaken. Not everything is oppression. Not every activity is injustice. Sometimes, people just fucking disagree.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by SeeDave »

dang wrote: post #59
SeeDave wrote: post #29

Would it be possible to update this post with a direct link to the Craigslist notice at https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA ? It seems a bit... inappropriate to deep link to a screenshot posted by a Twitter user with a bio of "CRUSH THE PATRIARCHY DICK BY DICK! XY = man & XX = woman FOREVER"

Sure. I'm on my phone, though, so someone else will have to post the previous link.

Thanks :)

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by loteck »

always_good wrote: post #57
loteck wrote: post #28

We're taking our ball and going home. Very mature. It's total BS, of course. People can just as easily advertise prostitution services in other sections of CL. Something tells me their deeply principled stand won't extend to shutting down the whole site. Instead, they will take reasonable steps to control the proliferation of sex trafficking on their site. Some magical force somehow precludes them from extending that…

I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Even if you think it's all for show, this is a good way for Craigslist to use their ubiquity to lift FOSTA into the public eye. Nobody knows what FOSTA is much less the sort of impact it could have on their day to day. But I suspect Craiglist's legal team isn't a bunch of idiots when it comes to toeing the line of prostitution. They outlived websites like Redbook even though…

All platforms already restrict content they allow users to post, including CL. People still seem to express themselves freely despite those restrictions.

That CL would make a vindictive stand in defense of sex trafficking specifically is just bizarre.

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