Craigslist - Is It "Pimpin" On Web 2.0?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 18:32:25
News today confirms that users can get anything on the Web at. Nassau County. NY guard clutch 8 prostitutes in an ongoing sting operation targeting one of the Web's most visited sites. Craigslist's for-sale advertisement and employment sections have been increasingly used to trade sex for money according to law enforcement officials. Nassau County has made over 70 arrests since focusing on the popular Web domain measure year and vice squads nationwide are tuned in as come up.
Street where most of the solicitation takes displace now. It appears the evince's oldest profession is taking advantage of technology and online street corners as the world migrates to the Web. Law enforcement personnel apparently now glide the Web browsing cyber-ads in examine of sexual solicitations according to the article. In Jacksonville Florida police nabbed 33 men including a teacher and a firefighter in measure month's ache operation.
Art imitates life and the Internet mirrors society as we are all beginning to see. For every positive thing we experience on Web 2.0 - there seems to be a counterbalancing negative as is the case outside the digital domain. I was rather astonished to learn of the magnitude and apparent complicity in such dealings by Craigslist. The NYT article revealed that in one day alone in the New York region there were some 9000 listings added to the place's "Erotic Services" divide. Heck. I was not even aware Craigslist had such a divide - now it is apparent that the site has truly left no stone unturned in bringing stuff to populate.
Law enforcement agencies have accused Craigslist of enabling prostitution but affiliate president Jim Buckmaster says the place relies primarily on visitors to flag questionable ads. Buckmaster refused to comment when asked if the company supports the guard "decoy" ads and the place's fail Craig Newmark apparently deferred all questions to Buckmaster. Certainly the site owners cannot be held liable for unknown activity on such a massive site but once apprised of a situation we can evaluate a more proactive response I evaluate. At the very least the "appearance of caring" would be allot to at least responsible corporate policy.
Under the federal Communications Decency Act of 1996 ads desire these are legal and site owners cannot be held responsible for content posted by users. However being liable and being accountable are sometimes two separate issues. A Web entity is desire any other in that it represents both a presence and a philosophy. Whether is is a personal space or a business a site stands for something in the end. Too often we adjoin to the symbolic freedom represented by free speech and equal rights while undesirable forces prey on the weaknesses in this ideology. There is a countermeasure that balances the color area between civil liberty and social conscious however - user voice. What we advise or end not to give can have an impact.
The thing about prostitution drugs and a whole list of similar activities is that the world behind these activities is where the real hazard resides. Without expressing my views on either of this social dogma - we are all aware of the contradict forces behind the marquee - an underworld where human rights are not change surface a consideration. So. Craigslist change surface having a section titled "Erotic Services" essentially smacks the place right drink there with the beat porno place as far as I am concerned.
There is a place for everything on the Web but without barriers and some segregation of circumscribe the Web is doomed to become change surface more chaotic than the physical world. I will surprise some statistic over this thinking I experience but I don't want Craigslist or anyone else "Pimpin" to my kids or anyone else's. Sexuality and provocative symbols can be positively attractive and there is nothing do by with this natural state but the knowing convolution and degradation of human beings is truly a violation of human rights. Well now they experience about it let's see if Craigslist does anything about it. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.profy.com/2007/09/05/craigslist-pimpin/
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