5 Things You Need to Know About The Craigslist Adult Services Censor
Posted: September 8th, 2010 | Author: Kink On Tap Editorial Staff | Filed under: Briefs | Tags: 58, activism, media, paranoia, sexwork, trafficking | Comments Off on 5 Things You Need to Know About The Craigslist Adult Services Censor"This weekend, Craigslist censored the Adult Services section of their site," Lori Adelman writes of the much-publicized controversy in which Melissa Farley and other anti-prostitution activists have hypocritially accused the company of facilitating child sex trafficking. Using wildly inflated numbers, misguided or just plain ignorant activists along with 17 "criminally shortsighted" attorneys general eager to jump on the panic-wagon put enough public pressure on Craigslist to make them self-censor part of the website.
If this all sounds familiar, it should. And what ideologically-motivated anti-trafficking groups ought to know is what they most don't want to hear: censoring Craigslist helps traffickers, hurting women, children, and cops.
Audience Participation