State attorneys are once again pressuring Craigslist over prostitution, requesting that the San Francisco-based company immediately take down the adult services section of its websites.
Spurred in part by a CNN report (YouTube) in which a child advocate dubbed the ubiquitous classified ad website “the Wal-Mart of child sex trafficking,” the attorney generals of 17 states sent Craigslist an August 24 letter asking for “immediate action to end the misery for the women and children who may be exploited and victimized by these ads.”
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Self-policing efforts by Craigslist have failed to reduce obvious ads for prostitution in the adult services section, the state attorneys state.
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State attorney pressure against Craigslist is nothing new. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, at the head of a 39-state coalition, subpoenaed the company in May for documents relating to “the craigslist brothel business ” (as he put it).
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For more:- download the letter from 17 state attorneys (.pdf)- watch the CNN report on prostitution on Craigslist
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