Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA
This is not surprising, but sad.
Years ago, i was dragged (i was the only engineer in the local office) into a whitehouse (or maybe it was state department, i can&#x27;t remember) sponsored working group on online sex trafficking.<p>The non-profits dedicated to fighting this, while seemingly well-intentioned, were completely and totally unwilling to see any other perspective or try to find shared ground.  It was scorched earth approach or nothing.  Literally to the tune of &quot;we should be burning down craigslist entirely, and yahoo, google, microsoft, etc should be required to be scanning your search history and reporting you to the police if they suspect you might be sex trafficking&quot;.<p>It was frustrating enough that two of the other participants literally walked out.<p>The only thing mildly surprising to me here is that it took them ~10 years to get the house to do it.