Saturday, December 18, 2010

Craigslist pulls prostitution ads from Canadian sites

Craigslist is beginning to respond to federal government pressure to yank down ads for sexual services. The history of the Craigslist contretemps is in the linked Toronto Star story. The story also notes that many "weekly newspapers in Canadian cities also carry explicit ads, but the federal government has said the papers are more likely to exercise control over the content to ensure the ads don’t involve minors." These weekly papers would include the Star-owned Eye Weekly and the indy NOW Magazine, owner of perhaps the largest sex ad section in the country. How the government knows that newspapers "exercise control" is not explored.

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