Craigslist Adult Services Section Shut Down - PCWorld

Craigslist Adult Services Section Shut Down - PCWorld

Craigslist shutdown its adult services listings on Friday replacing the link with a black bar with the word "censored" where the listings previously appeared.

The move comes after years of pressure to remove the ads, including an open letter from 17 state attorneys general in late August. The letter said "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 requested Craigslist take immediate action to stop accepting ads since it "cannot, or will not" screen them.
The letter wasn't Craigslist's first scuffle regarding sex-related ads. The site formerly had an "Erotic Services" section that was shut down in May 2009. It was pulled after law enforcement filed suit, claiming the classifieds facilitated prostitution, and after the alleged "Craigslist Killer" was arrested.

In the article, the last paragraph is predictive. Those ads will be everywhere now, instead of corralled into their own category. Also note, an Illinois judge already held intermediaries harmless in these cases.

I made comments about Craigslist's plight, and Reason's coverage of it, in May 2009. Includes a link to Nina Hartley erotica.

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‘Because I Said So’ Is Not Enough to Prove Torture - The Corner - National Review Online

‘Because I Said So’ Is Not Enough to Prove Torture - The Corner - National Review Online:

". . . especially if you decline to take the stand and be cross-examined about your claim that you were subjected to hair-raising abuses.

At the Standard‘s blog, Tom Joscelyn has the story of a military court’s rejection of Omar Khadr’s empty allegations of torture."

This is more related to the fan fiction and second series than the original series. Actually, not really, because the brutal scenes in the fan fiction and coming up in the new series are torture without question.

Leftists call this sort of thing "torture" (not safe for work): A Nina Hartley Bondage and Discipline video featuring a technique called "walling".  From a post last year.

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Pelosi, Pelosi, Pleosithon

Doesn't this woman hold herself up as some sort of feminist?  A shining example to women?

She'd best get out the aluminum foil and baking soda to remove the tarnish, or maybe just stop talking.

New York Times:

In Detainee Furor, a Rare Dent in Pelosi Armor

Mr. Panetta, a former Democratic congressman from California and a longtime associate of Ms. Pelosi, issued a statement that said the agency’s “contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that C.I.A. officers briefed truthfully,” a rebuttal of Ms. Pelosi’s claim on Thursday that intelligence officials had lied to her.

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Gingrich Is Right on Pelosi: Her Spin on Torture Is "Vicious and Dishonest"

Things have gotten so serious that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich weighed in with criticisms of his own. Rarely shy about using strong language to bring attention to serious subjects, Gingrich toldABC News that Pelosi continually evolving explanations amounted to "nitpicking in a fundamentally dishonest way."

Pointing out that, as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee during the period in question, Pelosi was empowered to ask any question she wanted of the CIA representatives who briefed the panel. "She had an absolute obligation to know what was going on and she had an absolute obligation to speak up." If the right questions weren't asked, Gingrich said, "Its Nancy Pelosi's fault."

LA Times (Former home of Matt Welch)

Panetta fires back at Pelosi on interrogations

Panetta's written statement, which was directed to CIA employees but released publicly, marked a rare instance in which the secretive agency's leadership has chosen to publicly challenge a high-ranking lawmaker.

"Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress," said Panetta, a former member of the House of Representatives from Monterey. "That is against our laws and our values."

Records suggest Pelosi, others were told of harsh interrogations (from May 8, 2009)

A chart compiled by the CIA indicates that Pelosi (D-San Francisco) was briefed on Sept. 4, 2002, on the agency's interrogation of alleged Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, and that the session covered "the particular [enhanced interrogation techniques] that had been employed." The chart does not list the specific methods covered during the briefing. But during the preceding month, the CIA had used the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding on Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times, according to a Justice Department memo released last month.

Day by Day cartoon began covering this yesterday.

Google News tracks Nancy Pelosi quotes here.

I was truly hoping that Feministing would come to the Speaker's defense, but they have not gotten to it yet.

The torture comment has been visited by the Suki Project here and here. Nancy Pelosi's current controversy was mentioned here.

Don't forget to check out the Nina Hartley walling demonstration video.(NOT work safe)

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I agree with Obama

This has been a big Obamafest week for me!

No line item or plan for closing the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center.

No release of the Abu Ghraib detainee pictures.

Obama agrees with Miss America on same sex marriage (I disagree, the government should stay out of marriage IMHO).  OK, OK, for this one he agreed well in advance.

Looks like a nice, we-can-all-get-along week.

From the comments:

Suki said...

John,

You left out the Nina Hartley walling demonstration video. (NOT work safe)

MAY 14, 2009 9:27 AM

Someone finally wrote a good article on 'torture'

Sorry, creepy bugs do not make it to the level of torture for me either.

I really liked this one:

As the torments were gradually increased, next up the interrogation ladder came "walling." This involves pushing the terrorist against a flexible wall, during which his "head and neck are supported with a rolled hood or towel that provides a C-collar effect to prevent whiplash." 


People pay to have a lot rougher stuff done to them at Six Flags Great Adventure. Indeed, with plastic walls and soft neck collars, "walling" may be the world's first method of "torture" in which all the implements were made by Fisher-Price. 


As the memo darkly notes, walling doesn't cause any pain, but is supposed to induce terror by making a "loud noise": "(T)he false wall is in part constructed to create a loud sound when the individual hits it, which will further shock and surprise." (!!!) 

Nina Hartley gives a great, but NOT SAFE FOR WORK demonstration of woman-on-woman walling in the free video at this link.  (adult content)

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Reason visited the torture subject recently.