Craigslist should not be censored. This is a free speach issue – period. There are numerous other sites that allow adult services posts, why had Craigslist been targeted? Backpage is just one of numerous other sites that allow adult services to post. Adult service providers also take out ads in the newspapers, are they next? I doubt it.

It’s like the burning of the koran. While I strongly disagree with this dufus for burning the koran, I strongly support his RIGHT to do it.

Censorship never works. people always find ways around censorship. The best way to censor something is to educate on the pros and cons and allow people to make up their own minds. If you do it right public attitudes change and there is no need for censorship in the first place.

If some small minded people feel that censoring ads is in some way going to change human trafficking then they really need to get out more often. The ads will change or move to some other platform and things will go on as if nothing happened in the first place.

If one wants to look at how censorship doesn’t work, have a look at the politics of any communist or socialist country, and see how well that works.

Education, not censorship.

These comments saying it’s a “free speech issue” have no understanding of the Constitution. It’s a private site. They can limit it to whatever they want. Craigslist is a private entity. They are censoring themselves which they have every right to do.

I think the bottom line here is that prostitution is illegal.

In the city I live in, they raid hotels that are known for prostitution and just recently they arrested the owners of the hotels because they know that prostitutes rent the rooms and use them for illegal activities, yet they do nothing to stop it. Just like Craigslist operators know prostitution was going on, yet they weren’t doing much to stop it. Instead, they started charging the prostitutes a fee and made them use “code words” instead of using straight forward terminology. They also said they had humans reviewing each ad before it became “live”, but the prostitution ads were still there.

If Craigslist had a section that drug dealers were using to sell their drugs, I don’t think people would have such an issue with this… A lot of people in America have mixed feelings about prostitution.

I don’t thing the issue is whether they should be held accountable, they should but moreover it is there responsibility to ensure that illegal activities and not done on THEIR sites..

After all it is their site is it not? If I allow someone to stay at my home – will I then turn a blind eye if they start doing illegal activities under my roof? Hell no! Why should it be the same for the site owners. In my home I am liable, the same goes for their websites.

Rules need to be put in place to strengthen this mentality. As a web designer myself, I will not willingly place anything illegal on a clients site as there is always the possibility of someone blaming me for the actions/request of my client.

Make prostitution legal, police it, tax it, get heath care checks in the mix. Men have paid women (or men) for sex since the beginning of time. It is a victimless crime until it is illegal. Prostitutes in some ancient cultures were treated with great respect and considered an integral part of society. Just like prohibition created lots of money for the mobsters, drugs are making lots of money for the Mexican cartels. It is a no brainer! I predict that future generations will figure this out and wonder at who gave the government the right to police our morals, when there is no victim. Either that or we will continue to elect self righteous a holes who spout Christian values on one hand while they have secret sexual alliances in the backroom. In that case, see science fiction writer Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land” for your future.

Everyone is “responsible” for their own actions. We do not need “big brother” aka The Government to be our keeper.

Craigslist is a self policying entity that has it’s own “police” that aggressively flags any posts it deems as a failure to adhere to guidelines. It does not need another “policing force” to further limit our rights to view what ever we want to – as free men (and women).

CL is not a house. It is a community driven site where people place ads. This is their right to do so. As it is your right not to place an ad or view the ads being placed.

If the ads do not:

- Harm another
- Damagae property
- Cause fraud

Then they should be allowed to be posted and viewed by responsible people.

As has been mentioned, it is far easier to manage those ads and people who break the above laws when they are all in one place, than it is when they are driven underground.

The spotlight that is on CL now is based upon the few loud voices ignoring the law and for their own use.

- people who don’t make money because of CL
- people who will make money from these moves
- the moral majority willing to remove rights and freedoms of others based upon their religion or ideas of right and wrong

It is past the time for free men and women to stop abdicating their roles and start standing up for themeselve. To stop demanding the government take control and take control yourself. To stop being a slave and become the free man or woman you were supposed to be.

I want to choose to what I see, or don’t see. To choose my life and not have it chosen for me. To do what I want to do within the 3 laws. Don’t you?

Havent we seen this kind of censorship before? Didnt they do it with books? Now they want to do it with the internet as well! Are you kidding me? When is enough gonna be enough? When do Americans stand up in 1 voice and so STOP?

Blood has been shed over the last 200 years so we can be free. Free to choose what we watch, read, listen to, eat, drive, etc etc. Now with a stroke of the preverbial pen, the government with all its might swooped down and struck again. This time they found something else to censor.

Craiglist was the victim here. The readers and advertisers are the victims here. Not just the criminals are affected here, but the whole. The law abiding citizens are the ones most affected. They have been let down, they have sat by and watched the government take more freedoms from us. My question to the attorney generals who pressured CL into submission is this.

What about sites like, Cityvibe.com Backpage.com Adultlist.com Escortguide.com and numerous others? Do they get a free pass? Are they above the law? Is CL somehow different from them? Is the media form of these websites the determining factor? I want answers. We the voting public want answers. Elections are coming boys, and your job is in jeopardy. You have a shelf life of 4 years, your doing will be undone.

The first amendment allows us Free Speech, Free Press, and Freedom of Religion. You Mr Attorney Generals are not allowed to take those protections away from us. And we will be taking action against you and anyone else who thinks the Bill Of Rights is just a piece of paper that can be amended any time they choose.

Come censor my site. http://www.plaistowpartygroup.com. Am i immoral or illegal in your eyes? Try to censor me and see how far that gets you.

Nail Craigslist to the wall!!!!!

THEY created the website, let them Police it!

Why should the public be subjected to Sex offenders, and rip-off artists
because the people at CraigsList are too LAZY to watch over their own
creation? – RESPONSIBILITY, people – YOU made it, now, FIX IT!!!!