What happened to Craiglist personals? What other alternative to Cragslist Personal?

[Guest Guest Poster]

It seems that yesterday Craigslist removed all personal ad posts. Does anyone know about what happened?

[Hot Buoys Sailing]

US government at work. Basically trying to prevent exploitation of sex workers and underage. Perhaps small percentage of ads and users were doing something illegal and spoiled it for all. 

 

 

[HendryTan]

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/craigslist-removes-personal-ads-after-trafficking-act-passes-w518302

Craigslist Removes Personal Ads After Sex Trafficking Act Passes

"We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking Craigslist personals offline," company writes

Craigslist announced Friday that it had removed personal ads from its sites following Congress' passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act. Alex Segre/REX Shutterstock

By Daniel Kreps

March 23, 2018

 

 

Craigslist announced Friday that it removed personal ads – a popular, albeit potentially dangerous service – from its regional websites following the passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) in Congress.

 

FOSTA, or H.R. 1865, repealed a previous law that provided "legal protection to websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution and websites that facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale of unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking victims."

 

While Craigslist's personal ads were often filled with legitimate postings and "casual encounters," the website was scrutinized over the past decade for serving as a platform to sex trafficking. In 2010, an exposé detailed how Craigslist's adult section was an epicenter of sex slavery. 

 

In a statement Friday following FOSTA's near-ratification – the bill awaits President Donald Trump's signature – Craigslist wrote: "Any tool or service can be misused. We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day."

 

FOSTA also imposed stronger penalties on those who "promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person," as well as also punishing those "knowingly assisting" in sex trafficking. In addition to Craigslist's closure, a handful of Reddit subreddits that provided similar services have also shut down, Ars Technica reports.

 

"To the millions of spouses, partners, and couples who met through craigslist, we wish you every happiness," Craigslist added. At press time, the subsections in Craiglist's personals section, including the "strictly platonic" and basic dating services, now link to the company's FOTSA statement.

 

[Guest Guest Poster]

I know the US government forced Craigslist to take down the personal section in the USA, but why Singapore? US government has no authority, right?

[ichigo]

Even in Australia it is also gone, even backpage is gone as well.

[Guest Sex is]

Any other pages that we can hookup for flings anymore ??

 

[Shenlongjian]

Yeah im super despo for the n4xt best alternative

[azimuth]

Use BW Personals. 

[fourth]

there's always Small Biz Ad

 

https://singapore.craigslist.com.sg/d/small-biz-ads/search/biz

 

https://singapore.craigslist.com.sg/d/skilled-trade-services/search/sks

 

https://singapore.craigslist.com.sg/d/activity-partners/search/act

 

and others.. so....

[Shenlongjian]

bw personal cannot find woman

[exy21]

http://onenightstand1.com/sex-hookup-sites and http://catch-women.com/2012/10/get-sex-site.html maintains interesting list of CL "personal" alternatives, useful for me.

 

"Sex trafficking bill" is the reason why CL removing personal ads (https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/23/17155110/craigslist-personal-ads-anti-sex-trafficking-bill), I think that idea is to stop sex trafficking and one of way is to close places where sex sells and CL is (actually was) one of best places for such activities... Just my thoughts about why CL done that.

[Guest Fun bug]

Where is the next best alternative. Please provide

[doncoin]

US companies, even when they are operating internationally are still subject to US laws and the local laws of the country they are operating in. 

 

So you will see companies like Facebook or Apple tend to be more LGBT friendly not only because it is the right thing to do, but also the US laws require that they make it so (though sexuality is not a protected class under Title VII) as a matter of equal rights and civil rights. This is where things can get complicated when operating under 2 sets of laws for businesses. 

 

US companies can be prosecuted for breaking the law even when the crime is committed outside its borders. 

 

So in Craigslist’s case, They have to remove the Personals section from all their global sites as it is the law. 

[exy21]

On 5/22/2018 at 2:38 PM, doncoin said:

US companies, even when they are operating internationally are still subject to US laws and the local laws of the country they are operating in. 

 

So you will see companies like Facebook or Apple tend to be more LGBT friendly not only because it is the right thing to do, but also the US laws require that they make it so (though sexuality is not a protected class under Title VII) as a matter of equal rights and civil rights. This is where things can get complicated when operating under 2 sets of laws for businesses. 

 

US companies can be prosecuted for breaking the law even when the crime is committed outside its borders. 

 

So in Craigslist’s case, They have to remove the Personals section from all their global sites as it is the law. 

 

Exactly, nicely explained the essentials of a new bill...

[KeureusDooD]

On 5/22/2018 at 7:01 PM, Guest Fun bug said:

Where is the next best alternative. Please provide

Locanto (Euro based, hence the ponderous, ungainly-sounding name) is still up and running, although the layout/UI is weird (EuroTrash). I think that's where all the travelling escorts advertise now... Locanto ads (in Personals, not the rest of the site) seems much more skewed towards escorts than CL ever was though.

Edited May 24, 2018 by KeureusDooD

[CumdrinkNgo]

too many Money boys there...so they closed down

[exy21]

On 5/28/2018 at 12:48 AM, CumdrinkNgo said:

too many Money boys there...so they closed down

That may be the explanation.

[exy21]

This I just found from one of my favorite sources: top 10 CL personal ads replacements, tried yesterday 3 of them, they are not even close to CL but I think in future they will "do the job", probably they need some time so people will start using...

[M4RK1705]

Anyone can suggest any website alternatives for craigslist personals??

 

Aside from tinder,is there any??

Tia