Craigslist, the highly popular advertising site, has been heavily criticised for its permissive attitude towards the adult market in America. (more…)

The team behind Craigslist have reacted angrily to an accusation by an Illinois Sheriff that the site is knowingly promoting prostitution and the trafficking of women. Thomas Dart claimed that the site was failing to react to the abuse of its site by not blocking offers of sex in exchange for money. Dart called for a federal judge to shut down the site’s erotic services section permanently calling the site “the single largest source of prostitution in the nation”.
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