5 posts and columns on adult services

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Craigslist Permanently Closes "Adult Services"

in News on September 16, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Craigslist Inc. said the move to take down its adult-services listings was permanent as the online-classified website faced renewed criticism for facilitating child sex trafficking during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. In testimony, Craigslist’s external lawyer, Elizabeth McDougall, a partner at Perkins Coie in Seattle, and William Powell, Craigslist’s director of customer- service and law-enforcement relations, offered the San Francisco company’s first comments on its Sept. 3 move to shutter the adult-services section and replace it with a banner reading “censored.”

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Craigslist Step Won't End Fight

in News on September 7, 2010 at 12:02 am PT

Craigslist’s decision to shut down its “adult services” listings isn’t likely to end the debate over Websites’ responsibility to filter user-created content. The move, whether or not it’s permanent, isn’t likely to stem the proliferation of Web prostitution ads.

Craigslist CEO Seeking Anderson Cooper Type for Non-Trashing (And Maybe Coffee?)

in News on August 31, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Craiglist CEO Jim Buckmaster let one fly yesterday at CNN reporter Amber Lyon for a report on child sex trafficking she did that focused on the role played by the online-classified giant. It included using a May interview with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark that Buckmaster characterized as an ambush. He ended by noting that if “[CNN anchor] Anderson Cooper would like to come out to SF and sit with us for an interview worthy of CNN’s viewers, we’ll consider it.”

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Craigslist and S.C. Attorney General Step Up Rhetoric

in News on May 18, 2009 at 5:00 pm PT

The battle over adult ads on Craigslist is escalating–at least in South Carolina. On May 5, the Palmetto State’s Attorney General Henry McMaster threatened to prosecute executives from the online classifieds site, if ads on the site play a role in a prostitution case in South Carolina.