Craigslist GONE.

[mack_dbfl]

Doublelist seems to be trying to keep up with demand, there is a link to request your city be added. I recommend everyone request their city and use them. I did have one non GH hookup from it last week. Maybe they have the balls to stick it out and police the ads for escorts. #FuckSESTA

[CptnFajita]

This whole sex trafficking thing strikes me as mostly bullshit. Doesn't pass the smell test. Yes, I'm sure it's happening on some level, and it would be a dreadful thing for an unwilling victim, but there doesn't appear to be an epidemic of cases where criminals and victims have been arrested or exposed. It's so salacious a topic that the ambulance chaser media would be all over it continually were it the epidemic that it's purported to be. I suspect it's mostly getting underage/runaway girls into prostitution through drug enticement, etc., which has been going on for what, centuries?

Not saying it's a wholesome activity or anything. But as per usual, congress lowers the ban hammer on something it knows little about and expects it to fix the problem. The law of unintended consequences says that it'll simply force it back out onto the streets where it was before the internet came along. Sort of like banning high-capacity magazines will prevent shooting incidents. Impeccable logic, that.

[Joeweekend]

Originally Posted by CptnFajita

This whole sex trafficking thing strikes me as mostly bullshit. Doesn't pass the smell test. Yes, I'm sure it's happening on some level, and it would be a dreadful thing for an unwilling victim, but there doesn't appear to be an epidemic of cases where criminals and victims have been arrested or exposed. It's so salacious a topic that the ambulance chaser media would be all over it continually were it the epidemic that it's purported to be. I suspect it's mostly getting underage/runaway girls into prostitution through drug enticement, etc., which has been going on for what, centuries?

Not saying it's a wholesome activity or anything. But as per usual, congress lowers the ban hammer on something it knows little about and expects it to fix the problem. The law of unintended consequences says that it'll simply force it back out onto the streets where it was before the internet came along. Sort of like banning high-capacity magazines will prevent shooting incidents. Impeccable logic, that.

It's worse than that. I've seen some people arguing that CL and the like have liberated a lot of women from pimps by letting them control their own sex businesses. Good example of cutting off the nose to spite the face.

[Joeweekend]

Just tried an experiment.

Whisper.com. It’s totally anonymous. You post a few words, and people can look at postings that are nearby.

So I posted “Tempe private GH. Anybody need totally anonymous, no strings service?”

Seven responses in nine minutes. Responses dropped off at that point, as new posts pushed older ones down the list

[wolfhole]

I joined Adam4Adam it hits a lot of towns and have met a few guys on their

[CptnFajita]

Just as I suspected . . .

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...fficking.shtml

[bjbud4u]

Originally Posted by CptnFajita

Just as I suspected . . .

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...fficking.shtml

Interesting article Cptn. I wonder if someone will now take this info and try to correct this mess.

[Joeweekend]

Originally Posted by bjbud4u

Interesting article Cptn. I wonder if someone will now take this info and try to correct this mess.

Fat chance. It will take a politician who is willing to say "sex work should be allowed on the internet."

Fat chance.

[CptnFajita]

Originally Posted by CptnFajita

Just as I suspected . . .

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...fficking.shtml

As a follow-on here's some further news on this, not that it's liable to help us much in the near future:

Congress' awful anti-sex-trafficking law has only put sex workers in danger and wasted taxpayer money

https://www.businessinsider.com/fost...opinion-2019-7
(if you're running an adblocker you'll have to disable it to see that page)

Three months after the bill’s passage, the sponsor of the bill, Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri, said, “We have shut down nearly 90% of the online sex-trafficking business and ads.” The Washington Post fact-checked this claim and gave her three Pinocchios.

Among other issues with her comment, most of the decline in sex-work ads came after the government seized the website Backpage, a move that happened before FOSTA-SESTA was passed. And, The Post wrote, “after the initial drop, advertising for the sex trade appears to have rebounded, such as on new websites that mimic Backpage with named like ‘Bedpage.'”

As for the actual business of sex trafficking, there’s no evidence that the law has made any difference whatsoever.

The cofounder of the St. James Infirmary, “a health clinic that supports sex workers in California’s Bay Area,” told The Verge “that in the weekend following FOSTA, the infirmary’s mobile van outreach saw a dramatic increase of street-based sex workers in the Mission District.” Sex workers weren’t just going to disappear, and police departments across the country seem to have been caught off-guard by this influx.

[wolfhole]

use Doublelist. org new site just about as good as the old CL