Craigslist sex case goes global
Four human rights groups have demanded Craigslist shut down the adult services section on all its international sites. The call comes as the site continues to keep quiet about its motivations for removing the prostitution-section in the US.
The four groups (Courtney’s House, the FAIR Fund, the Polaris Project and the Rebecca Project for Human Rights), which are all concerned with child trafficking, put out a press statement reading:
“While this is a good first step in the U.S., there are still more than 250 other Craigslist ‘erotic’ pages around the world where children and young women are still being sold for sex through Craigslist. [It] is a global company, and it has a global responsibility. It should immediately shut down the ‘erotic’ services sections across the globe.”
The groups also questioned why the site should have chosen now to close down the section in the US, suggesting it might be a way to deflect heat before a Congressional testimony appearance next week on the sex trafficking issue. There’s some logic to that argument: if Craigslist has closed the sections on principled grounds, there’s no reason why it wouldn’t extend the action worldwide.
The problem is that there’s yet to be any official word from Craigslist on why it made the changes. It certainly has to be said that replacing the relevant links with a “censored” banner certainly gives the impression of a company acting under protest.
It also appears that predictions that the section closure would simply spread the ads into other sections (thus being more time-consuming for the authorities to monitor) of Craigslist appears correct. For example, the “therapeutic services” section of the New York Craigslist now has a jumbled-up mixture of those promoting their massage training and qualifications, and those for whom a picture in a bikini appears to be their main selling-point.
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