Doankyl's post hit on part of the big problem for Craigslist: It had become a haven for prostitution and for sex traffickers. Other sites don't have that issue to anywhere near the same extent.
maybe a good thing is that paid membership to adult dating is a work around by the law as both site and user can prove that consent to the payment and the publication of their profile site and said site has proof of filtering ads and talk of money on every message. this way people will pay for a good site to retain that hobby or life style, if this a a good work around.
Hard for me to believe this will affect dating sites in general. Too many of them and too much money involved. But things had gotten too free and easy and trashy on Craigslist. Some kind of blowback was bound to happen.
This FOSTA is not partisan legislation. The vote in the House was 388-47, and in the Senate it was 97-2! Whether the President signs SESTA-FOSTA it came from the Congress where, sadly, there was overwhelming Democrat and Republican support.
Tried to renew my ad on Wednesday only to get confused why I got a 404 message. After digging for about 5 min, I came to the answer above. Oh well.
Coming from both sides of the CL ads, I kinda see both ends of the story. CL was just too damn anonymous. The absence of a payment requirement just made it too easy for those with little skin in the game and left the door wide open for exploitation. I understand their position, tho don't completely agree.
I also mourn it, as a cheap bastard who liked posting for free. I agree with doankyl, tho. I don't think it's just a 45 thing. Partial, sure... Congress wants to do *something* to show they haven't been just sitting on their asses.
Overall, I think more a knee-jerk reaction to FB/Cambridge Analytica, esp since it's only passed Senate at this point. Very premature. (insert ED joke here) CL doesn't want to take the heat of being a third-party facilitator.
It is going to drive sex-trade underground, tho. That'd be a greater harm. Might need to brace ourselves for something like the back-alley abortion rhetoric like the days before Roe v Wade.
i dont think you can honestly blame Trump for this one. congress has been working on this (at least looking into this issue) for some years now. i dont know that its going to be effective but the original push was for the sake of illegal sex trafficking. like people selling kids or unwilling people as sex slaves. at least thats my understanding.
just like CL
Coming from both sides of the CL ads, I kinda see both ends of the story. CL was just too damn anonymous. The absence of a payment requirement just made it too easy for those with little skin in the game and left the door wide open for exploitation. I understand their position, tho don't completely agree.
I also mourn it, as a cheap bastard who liked posting for free. I agree with doankyl, tho. I don't think it's just a 45 thing. Partial, sure... Congress wants to do *something* to show they haven't been just sitting on their asses.
Overall, I think more a knee-jerk reaction to FB/Cambridge Analytica, esp since it's only passed Senate at this point. Very premature. (insert ED joke here) CL doesn't want to take the heat of being a third-party facilitator.
It is going to drive sex-trade underground, tho. That'd be a greater harm. Might need to brace ourselves for something like the back-alley abortion rhetoric like the days before Roe v Wade.