Craigslist takes down Personal Internet Ads Over New Online Sex-Trafficking Law. After years of vigorous use, wisecracks, and legal controversy around one of the web’s oldest romance hubs, Craigslist has shut down its personals in response to new legal liability.
“We now have the ability to go after these websites who are exploiting women and children online,”
President Donald J. Trump applauds the Senate for passing H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act. This bipartisan piece of legislation takes an important step forward in fighting the despicable act of human trafficking.
“While the Internet has given us so much good, Congress could not have foreseen the depravity and exploitation that it has caused, and if they could have, they certainly would have never condoned this behavior. The laws put in place to foster innovation were never meant to enable sex trafficking. This concept is so obvious; it is absurd that we even had to clarify it.
The passage of the bill is widely seen as a major legislative loss for Silicon Valley, and perhaps the first in an era where the industry is being viewed much more critically by lawmakers.The passage of the bill is widely seen as a major legislative loss for Silicon Valley, and perhaps the first in an era where the industry is being viewed much more critically by lawmakers. “I think that in the future tech companies have to understand that it’s not the Wild West and they have to exercise responsibility,”