Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA • Hacker News Board

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by pmoriarty » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:27 AM UTC

It'll be interesting to see how other dating sites (okcupid, match.com, tinder, etc) handle this. If they manage to stay open, this could wind up benefiting them, as craiglist users migrate over.

But if they shut down, and newspapers posting personals also run afoul of this law, then this could be a boon to bars and other, more traditional ways of meeting people.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by mc32 » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:29 AM UTC

aaronrenoir wrote: post #9

confounded wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop trafficking yourself!

I think we can all agree ycombinator is facilitating prostitution

I think you would need to spell out your [handler's] phone number's numbers for it to be "legit" solicitation.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by cft » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:33 AM UTC

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"

I tried that, but apparently craigslist.org/com are filtered by the HN shadowban filter

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by bsder » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:37 AM UTC

Could someone explain to me how this isn't going to go down in flames to an immediate First Amendment challenge?

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by Nadya » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:37 AM UTC

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"

I've been programmatically blocked from viewing their tweets through one of the various blocklists out there. So this submission shows a blocked feed for me (unless I sign out of Twitter). So any alternative link would be nice for me and other people who also may be blocked.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/pYANJau.png

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by cft » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:38 AM UTC

pishpash wrote: post #27

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #21

This is completely bizarre, we can't go down this route with the internet. It is madness.

The internet is not "the internet" any more. It's a corporate owned, tapped and monitored, centralized data warehouse. Another decentralized network needs to be formed separately adhering to the original ideals of the internet. In fact this turnover may need to happen periodically. Jump ship from the current so-called internet.

I wonder how long it will take to ban that too, like is Bitcoin ban imminent? Perhaps not a ban, but a legislation rendering it practically useless due to compliance burden. Modern congress now acts impulsively, fast, like in basketball.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by bdcravens » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:43 AM UTC

newnewpdro wrote: post #8

aaronrenoir wrote: post #4

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

This is so poignant I don't see why it's being downvoted.

In general humorous Reddit-style comments aren't welcome here. Every community has its own standards.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by pmorici » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:47 AM UTC

danso wrote: post #30

How are Craigslist personals more affected by this law/regulation than other semi-anonymous dating sites? Or am I mistaken in thinking that there is any dating site that has the same anonymity as Craigslist?

It could be that the risk reward calculation is different for CL than other sites. Personals is just one part of a much larger site for CL where as a dating site's only business is personals so they really don't have anything to lose by taking the risk.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by bdcravens » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:48 AM UTC

remailer404 wrote: post #18

Wow! I met my wife just over 7 years ago there, and our 2nd kid is due in a few months. Hard to believe that the personals section is gone.

It's definitely changed over the past 7 years, being filled with mostly escort/sugar baby ads in recent times.

Re: Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA

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Post by gnicholas » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 4:49 AM UTC

remailer404 wrote: post #18

Wow! I met my wife just over 7 years ago there, and our 2nd kid is due in a few months. Hard to believe that the personals section is gone.

Curious to know what city you lived in when you met. I also met my wife via an online dating site about 7 years ago, and at the time we were under the impression that CL personals were super sketch. Obviously it isn't that way everywhere, but where I am (Palo Alto) that was the belief among all of my friends.