Craigslist Relents: No More ‘Erotic Services’
The Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan, has scored a victory for prudes decency and safety. Craigslist will be removing its erotic services section in the next seven days:
llinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says that Craigslist is getting rid of its “erotic services” ads and will create a new adult category that Web site employees will review.
This would never have happened if Roland Burris was still around!
In fairness, who knows how long Craigslist could have fought off all the subtle prostitution available on the site.
The efforts by Madigan and other attorneys general came after a lawsuit by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, in which he claimed that Craigslist was “the single largest source of prostitution in the nation.”
But once people started dying over this stuff, it was probably just a matter of time:
Craigslist came under renewed pressure to remove the ads after Philip Markoff, a medical student in Boston, was charged with the April killing of a masseuse he met on the site.
Craigslist will start offering an Adult category which is more closely monitored by employees.
You know it just got a little easier out here for a pimp.
Illinois AG: Craigslist is getting rid of ‘erotic services’ ads [Newser]
Madigan: Craigslist To Drop ‘Erotic Services’ Ads [CBS 2]
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Guess I have to go to backpage.com now for my photos of barely-clothed females.
The University of Miami School of Law regrets this decision
"it just got a little easier out here for a pimp"?
So you're the whore?
Lisa Madigan is not a "new" state attorney general--she has been in that position since 2002. Facts check please.
Does Nevada get to keep it's Erotic Services ad section? Cause I don't think that IL should be dictating morals to NV.
That would be a federalism/states rights argument for you Generation of Old (White) Perverts (GOPers) out there.
You spelled Craigslist wrong in the headline.
5, Given the political history of IL, IL shouldn't be dictating morals at all.
-IL voter
Speaking of Illinois, McDermott Will & Emery is crappy Chicago-based firm.
YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS
N. Wacker Stud
Lawyer hot.
This development provides ATL with an excellent opportunity to step into the breach.
3: It's pun off a Three 6 Mafia song. You are clearly an idiot.
Elie. Rule 1 of journalism: if you can't get the little things right (like spelling Craigslist correctly in the goddamn headline) no one will trust that you get the important things right in your reporting.
- Former journalism student
Fakking markoff the jerkoff. I hope he feels the burn in hell and in his pants too, that sonorabitch. Way to ruin I for the rest of us markoff, you fakkhead.
Fakking markoff the jerkoff. I hope he feels the burn in hell and in his pants too, that sonofabitch. Way to ruin it for the rest of us markoff, you fakkhead.
Where the hell will I find providers for rub and tugs now? Jesus, first I am laid off by Latham and now this.
Fuck everything.
Gay.
12, oh, of course, three 6 mafia. How could I miss such a relevant cultural reference.
12 = elie or elie's mom
What an opportunity. Lawandmore.com can start selling erotic ads on our site.
Don't blame Markoff. Blame the woman, Lisa Madigan.
#13 "- Former journalism student"
Stop surfing the internet on your phone and get back to the drive through window. And after your comment here, I expect you to get my order right.
18, are you kidding? they sang that song at the Oscars. it was funny. it was a relevant cultural event. a bit dated, but just admit you missed the joke and move on.
I don't understand the big deal about the Markoff thing. I thought it's understood that killing drifters and prostitutes is an acceptable way to work through violent tendencies without hurting actual people.
22: Yeah right, the Oscars. You clearly are the tool in this scenario. Crawl back into your trollspace.
I would like to offer Ms. Madigan some erotic services. Koo koo ka choo!
22: Oscars? huh?
23, sort of like a social norm, I agree.
Yeah, I'm sure this will put an end to all of the prostitution on Craigslist, and probably on all of the internets.
Hey, can someone tell Ms. Madigan that the Chicago yellow pages has 11 pages of ads under the category "escorts." Not her fault that she hasn't seen that and shut it down, I think it's only been there forever.
22, Yea stupidity!
24/26 - maybe i am being trolled here. if so good job. if not, i will just say against that 3-6 mafia (or however you spell it) sang "it's hard out there for a pimp" at the oscars a few years ago. and they won the oscar. and that was the point of the "joke" or reference elie was making. and why am i caring or defending him?
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I wonder why Elie didn't use this adoring photo of Ms. Madigan: http://blog.cleveland.com/nationworld_impact/2008/08/large_IllinoisObama_2008_Democratic_Meye.JPG
yikes! what will all the laid off female attorneys and wall street bankers do now?
So it's better to have hookers on street corners than to have them advertise on Craigslist? This is stupid.
33 - they'll post in "therapeutic services" like they already do:
http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/ths/1168700673.html
9 - Being a wacker does not make you a stud.
Craig's List got prostitution off of the streets and into private where it should be. It did more good in a few years than law enforcement has in a few decades. The guy wanted to kill prostitutes. He would have found them where ever they advertise their services, whether its the web, a brothel, or the street corner.
A phony and hollow victory for assholes everywhere.
Bambi to 190 (roses)
32 - Holy crap, she looks like she might be ready to offer an erotic service right there!
32 - Holy crap, she looks like she might be ready to offer an erotic service right there!
Ladies and Gentlemen the next Senator from the great state of Illinois
38 -- Wow, a sane comment on ATL. Now, that's erotic!
I guess we'll have to use martindale.com for adult services.
This is a sad day for america.
I go to a great place here in NYC on 51st street between 2nd and 3rd avenues that I found on Craigslist. They start you off with a nice table shower where they wash you down and get you all primed for your massage where at the end they finish you off with such perfection as if they had been professionally trained in the art of giving a handjob. Best $70 you can spend.
I go to a great place here in NYC on 51st street between 2nd and 3rd avenues that I found on Craigslist. They start you off with a nice table shower where they wash you down and get you all primed for your massage where at the end they finish you off with such perfection as if they had been professionally trained in the art of giving a handjob. Best $70 you can spend.
If you cannot trust a medical student alone with a prostitute, who can you trust?
I go to a great place here in NYC on 51st street between 2nd and 3rd avenues that I found on Craigslist. They start you off with a nice table shower where they wash you down and get you all primed for your massage where at the end they finish you off with such perfection as if they had been professionally trained in the art of giving a handjob. Best $70 you can spend.
38 - That's about as correct and succinct an opinion as one can have on the subject.
Time to poke at Craigslist's terms of use. Even if they say that your ad can be taken down, promissory estoppel may carry some weight here.
a little bird tells me Madigan is going to miss the w4w section
well, since the state of illinois has ran out of legal problems, this was a logical area to focus prosecutorial resources on.
"This would never have happened if Roland Burris was still around" -->
This should be "if Roland Burris *were* still around."
51 - nicely done.
54 = racist.
Like this will actually stop prostitutes. All you have to do is put "$" in the caption of your "ltr" ad and accept your first offer (which is, hopefully, before the administrator can remove the ad).
Consider this a career tip for Sullivan & Cromwell associates.
Like this will actually stop prostitutes. All you have to do is put "$" in the caption of your "ltr" ad and accept your first offer (which is, hopefully, before the administrator can remove the ad).
Consider this a career tip for Sullivan & Cromwell associates.
#57 - don't you mean $ullivan & Cromwell (I would uce the cents symbol for the "C" if I could find it).
Just to be clear, you can still go to lovely East St. Louis, IL, and get yourself a toothless hooker on the street legally, right? So long as she doesn't use the internet?
Next up: Illinois eliminates street corners.
Good thing Lisa Madigan is out to prevent consensual adult interactions. What would we do without her? The only better than this is her stance on gun control. It is high time we have more people in power who recognize that the people need to be told what to do and not given choices.
Lisa Madigan is a Chicago hack politician, just like Daley, Burris, Obama, Loren-Maltese, Blagojevich, George Ryan, or any other mob-tied pay-for-play idiot.
The grip of the big-government, mob-supporting retards in City Hall and Springfield will never be loosed. Illinois will go the way of Michigan and the strong-arming auto unions.
So this Craigslist business is a sideshow: it's politically popular and is used to keep people's eyes of the ball: the ball being their money and civil liberties.
Let's see: How many postings on C-list over the years -- all over the world? Probably more than MickeyD's burgers sold. How many murders? Not so many. Lisa I liked you better when you were an associate at S&W.
64: "How many postings on C-list over the years -- all over the world? Probably more than MickeyD's burgers sold."
-over 10 million "served."
Kind of funny that on the Lake Street side of the Thompson Center there is a stand for "Single's" magazine. In fact its across from the entrance where the governor's SUV's pull in and out. Single's is a free magazine advertising services for escorts, massage parlors, strip clubs and peep shows. It can be found at magazine stands throughout the Loop and Northside. Way to clean up internet posts for providers in far off places before turning to the obvious eye soars at home.
Just cruise on over to the Casual Encounters section, bruthas and sistas!