Craigslist Promises To Address Concerns Over Ads
Craigslist.org CEO Jim Buckmaster said Thursday that the online classified site wants to work to address concerns raised by a group of state attorneys general that urged the firm this week to eliminate "adult services" ads, which the officials claim help promote sex trafficking.
"We want to work with the attorneys general to address all of their concerns, which we share," Buckmaster said in an e-mail response to Tech Daily Dose. "Abdicating our responsibilities in the face of this demand would be a disaster for the very societal issues the AGs hope to address. It would encourage the notion that government censorship can
address complex societal challenges that will be met only through thoughtful, sustained investment in our communities."
Attorneys general from 17 states wrote Buckmaster and Craigslist founder Craig Newmark on Tuesday calling on the firm to drop adult services section from the online classified ads offered on the site.
"The increasingly sharp public criticism of Craigslist's adult services section reflects a growing recognition that ads for prostitution -- including ads trafficking children -- are rampant on it," the attorneys general wrote. "Because Craigslist cannot, or will not, adequately screen these ads, it should stop accepting them altogether and shut down the adult services section."
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