A longtime and well-known digital resource for prostitutes and the people who engage their services, Craigslist has come under fire many times over the past few years for its erotic/adult classified ads. Craigslist has stated it does everything it can to comply with government and legal stipulations and has an attorney manually screen all of its Adult Services ads. The company once said that 700,000 ads were manually rejected in just one year.
Still, this hasn't stopped sex trafficking on the site, nor has it stopped the site from coming under harsh criticism for its business.
In a recent poll, we asked if you thought Craigslist's "Adult Services" section should be censored. Here are the results.
Our readers are surprisingly liberal-minded about the Adult Services section. The vast majority of you (71.37%) said you thought the site should not be censored for a variety of reasons:
Among our readers who thought the site should be censored, two-thirds found the Adult Services section objectionable because they felt it allowed Craigslist to profit indirectly from prostitution.
Of those who thought the site and the adult sections should remain uncensored, almost half of you (46.15%) felt the censorship was unwarranted because prostitution should not be illegal in the first place. These broad-minded folks comprise almost 33% of everyone who voted in the poll.
Others who were against the censorship in this case thought that Craigslist's anti-prostitution policies were sufficient or stated another reason for opposing Adult Services censorship.
