Craigslist Adult Services Shut Down Worldwide
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Craigslist Adult Services Shut Down Worldwide
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#2"Adult Services, which was previously titled “Erotic Services,” was expected to generate $36 million in revenue this year for Craigslist, nearly one-third of the $122 million the entire company has been projected to pull in."
That's a devastating blow, if it really amounted to that much revenue for Craigslist.
Given those figures, it's clear that a market exists for these services, so who will get the business now that Criagslist has withdrawn from it?
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#3Worldwide prostitution has ended! (/sarcasm)
Thank you to all the politicians who lobbied to make it possible for human traffickers to move further into the recesses of the web, allowing them to continue advertising in other print and net classifieds without Craigslist's continued cooperation with the authorities.
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#4In related news, Craigslist Personals now rendered entirely useless by the sudden influx of covert Adult Services ads.
Craigslist's primary reason for ever creating an Adult Services category was simply to keep that sort of content out of every other category. You could imagine the situation now as similar to what would happen if Gmail's spam filter were suddenly disabled.
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#5Another victory in the war on consenting adults choosing what to do, with whom to do it, and the terms upon which they do it with each other!
What surprises me when I read this stuff from my comfortable perch in Canada, is how schizophrenic America can appear to the outside world. On the one hand, there's a fierce independence from government, a belief in making your own choices and not allowing the government to meddle in your private affairs.
And on the other hand, there's stuff like this, stuff that looks to a Canadian like being deeply un-American, deeply opposed to American values.
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#6Another victory in the war on consenting adults choosing what to do, with whom to do it, and the terms upon which they do it with each other! What surprises me when I read this stuff from my comfortable perch in Canada, is how schizophrenic America can appear to the outside world. On the one hand, there's a fierce independence from government, a belief in making your own choices and not allowing the government to med…
It's puzzling to this American as well. I too see these things as deeply un-American.
What's worse is that, as other commenters are mentioning, this makes it more difficult to track human traffickers.
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#7"Adult Services, which was previously titled “Erotic Services,” was expected to generate $36 million in revenue this year for Craigslist, nearly one-third of the $122 million the entire company has been projected to pull in." That's a devastating blow, if it really amounted to that much revenue for Craigslist. Given those figures, it's clear that a market exists for these services, so who will get the business now th…
That paragraph of the article was completely irrelevant: Adult Services was never part of whatever Craigslist considers its "business plan." Craigslist doesn't try, in any way, shape, or form, to optimize for profit in the way a publicly-traded company would. Disregarding the fact that running a single ad on each page would make them ridiculous amounts of money, they're not even charging for ads in any but a few category/location pairs (e.g. real-estate in NYC.)
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#8Are we going to ban computers, newspapers, the Latin alphabet, telephones, magazines, and street corners, too?
After all, the pernicious influence of sex must be eradicated, everywhere. We must stop at nothing!
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#9"Adult Services, which was previously titled “Erotic Services,” was expected to generate $36 million in revenue this year for Craigslist, nearly one-third of the $122 million the entire company has been projected to pull in." That's a devastating blow, if it really amounted to that much revenue for Craigslist. Given those figures, it's clear that a market exists for these services, so who will get the business now th…
That paragraph of the article was completely irrelevant: Adult Services was never part of whatever Craigslist considers its "business plan." Craigslist doesn't try, in any way, shape, or form, to optimize for profit in the way a publicly-traded company would. Disregarding the fact that running a single ad on each page would make them ridiculous amounts of money, they're not even charging for ads in any but a few cate…
I don't see how a loss of tens of millions in revenue qualifies as "irrelevant". Even if it wasn't part of their business plan, it is money lost.
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#10Another victory in the war on consenting adults choosing what to do, with whom to do it, and the terms upon which they do it with each other! What surprises me when I read this stuff from my comfortable perch in Canada, is how schizophrenic America can appear to the outside world. On the one hand, there's a fierce independence from government, a belief in making your own choices and not allowing the government to med…
In High School civics class Back In The Day we discussed a study that showed that a significant majority of Americans would agree with the statement "People should be able to advocate any political belief, no matter how wrong" but an equally significant majority would disagree with "People should be able to advocate Nazi beliefs." That is, people hold many abstract beliefs that they don't apply to specific situations.