Speier also said she will ask U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello to help San Francisco’s Craigslist in “identifying additional methods that you may use to avoid the facilitation of prostitution and human trafficking.”
And Speier also said she was calling the House Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on “how Web sites such as yours and others are being used to facilitate criminal activity.”
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Buckmaster has previously responded to similar criticism of the site by saying the online classifieds giant is already taking active steps to manually screen adult services ads for child prostitution and that it continues to help law enforcement efforts to combat these “utterly despicable and horrendous crimes.”
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The ad, purchased by the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, the Washington, D.C., described the experiences of two teenage prostitutes who claimed Craigslist was used to recruit their customers.
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