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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:21 am Post subject: Sheriff Seeks Craigslist Erotic Services Ban |
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An Illinois sheriff wants Craigslist to stop making it so easy to catch prostitutes. Apparently it just gives him a lot more work than he can handle.
Sheriff Tom Dart, of Cook County, Ill., filed suit against Craigslist and asked a federal judge to ban the online classified advertising site from offering its erotic services section. “Craigslist is the single largest source of prostitution in the nation,” he said, and Dart is seeking $100,000 in reimbursement for the costs of prostitution investigations stemming from Craigslist.
This was a gem of a quote:
“I could make arrests off Craigslist 24 hours a day, but to what end? I’m trying to go up the ladder.”
So what he’s saying is Craigslist is making it way too easy for him to do his job, and he’d rather catch the really stupid pimps, hookers, and johns (the ones now advertising and utilizing illegal activities on the Internet) himself, on street corners, back alleys, and truck stops, just like the olden days, good, honest days of actual work. Craigslist just takes the fun out of the chase.
When he goes up that ladder he’s talking about though, he’ll likely discover the federal protection Craigslist enjoys under the Communications Decency Act, which shields Internet services from liability for third party content. Being a lawman, Dart probably should have checked on that before calling a press conference.
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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:35 pm Post subject: Re: Sheriff Seeks Craigslist Erotic Services Ban |
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Update:
"Sheriff's lawsuit over craigslist erotic ads thrown out"
A lawsuit accusing craigslist of facilitating prostitution has been thrown out, once again thanks to the Communications Decency Act. The judge ruled that craigslist is protected from the illegal activities of its users—if law enforcement wants to pursue individuals, then they can do so without shooting (or suing) the messenger.
The Communications Decency Act continues to protect craigslist against liability when users post questionable things to its servers, even when those things involve paying someone for sex. A federal judge has reaffirmed craigslist's place as a protected intermediary when it comes to providing online personals, throwing out a lawsuit from the Cook County Sheriff's Department that argued craigslist played an active role in promoting and profiting from illegal sex acts.
The Sheriff filed a lawsuit against craigslist in March of this year, alleging that the popular personals site facilitated prostitution with its (then called) "erotic services" section. In the lawsuit, Sheriff Thomas Dart said that his department had devoted 3,120 workers hours between January and November of 2008 exclusively to dealing with prostitution stemming from craigslist, and that craigslist itself "solicits for a prostitute" by indirectly arranging meetings. If not for craigslist, Dart alleged, online prostitution would not nearly be such a problem.
Two months after the suit was filed, craigslist agreed to implement voluntary changes to the system that would do away with erotic services and replace it with "adult services." This new section was to fall under much stricter oversight, but the Sheriff's Department was not interested in dropping its lawsuit, claiming that replacing "erotic" with "adult" made no difference and was still an obvious grab for prostitution listings.
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jjj525
Joined: 08 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject: Re: Sheriff Seeks Craigslist Erotic Services Ban |
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The sheriff should have used resources to fight actual crimes.
The prostitution is a age old tradition and last as long as humans are alive and cannot be eradicated by a single lawsuit.If Craigslist bans it people just move to another site.
Same with war on drugs.Good think that California & some states wised up and now legalized Marijuana.
Think how much money the states can prevent flowing to the hands of drug cartels and violence on the south of our border will drop. |
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fatseal
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: Sheriff Seeks Craigslist Erotic Services Ban |
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Where I live, the police force use Craigslist to catch the criminals intead of bitching about hoe many of them there are. They love craigslist for sting operations.
And it beats having them walk the streets. |
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missprintsvintage
Joined: 18 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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>Where I live, the police force use Craigslist to catch the criminals intead of bitching about hoe many of them there are. They love craigslist for sting operations.
Eggsactly. Perfect pond in which to go fishing.
I presume, fatseal, that your pink shutters are all the rage in the neighborhood.[wonderful double-header of posts: BLOTMonth still] |
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fatseal
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: Sheriff Seeks Craigslist Erotic Services Ban |
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Actually, I think Cohiba store had the pink shutters up first, he beat me to the punch!
I gotta figure something else to set the neighbors off, but it's hard to compete with my neighbors blue metallic shutters. |
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missprintsvintage
Joined: 18 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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>I think Cohiba store had the pink shutters up first, he beat me to the punch!
Was it not you who commented(environmental conversation(Politics?) thread ''fatseal :that explains...[fish~salmon~ eaten]'' which gave rise to pink pumps comment?
Followed by the pink shutters?
I ain't 2 brite but my memory isn't bad.
Perhaps, until this very minnit. |
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fatseal
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: Re: Sheriff Seeks Craigslist Erotic Services Ban |
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I think he had the pink shutters and I mentioned that explained a few thing about him. Or maybe it was the pink pumps.
Hmm, we'll have to ask him, he knows everything... |
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DaLizardsLair
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| My guess is the sheriff filed suit, cuz unlike the old days, he doesn't get any freebies from the girls. |
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DaLizardsLair
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Years ago, one of my neighbors painted her garage door pink. And the trim of her house.
She didn't seem to understand that her kids weren't too keen on spending any time at home. Not to mention the comments they got in school.
But it was easy to find their house. |
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fatseal
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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DaLizardsLair wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")
My guess is the sheriff filed suit, cuz unlike the old days, he doesn't get any freebies from the girls.
You may be on to something! |
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