Craigslist urged to shut erotic-services ads worldwide
Found on CNet News on Tuesday, 14 September 2010
A hundred organizations fighting sex trafficking have joined the chorus of voices asking Craigslist to remove its erotic services section worldwide as the company has in the U.S.
The groups added that the few actions taken by Craigslist so far "do not measure up to the amount of daily harm being facilitated by Craigslist through the thousands of Erotic Services ads around the world each day."
Craigslist had resisted the public and political pressure at first, saying that it thoroughly screened each ad posted in the adult section.
Hooray for censorship. When a service does not violate current laws then there is no real reason to shut it down. It reminds one of China's efforts to "clean" the Internet.