The end of an Era.

[nysprod]

Backpage is still running ads. So is Eros.

[flabbybody]

Except when it comes to real dangers like guns. I know there is plenty of hypocrisy to go around, but many of the same people supporting this legislation continue to argue that gun buyers should never be inconvenienced because of the actions of a few 'rotten apples'.

The point spreads on the NCAA college basketball games are printed in newspapers and openly discussed on ESPN but if I placed a wager with a bookmaker in New York City we’d both be breaking the law. But in Nevada and Costa Rica the activity is s booming legal business.
And the players are college students who are not allowed to be compensated even though their coaches make $5 million per year...but that’s for another show.
Try explaining our laws to a Martian who just landed on Earth

[Wendy Summers]

It can't last long and the sites are overreacting as the bills are only aimed at those who are complicit in sex trafficking.

Clearly you've not read the actual Bill. The language they used to get folks on board the bill was "protect our children" but the law was so broadly written it can, and will, be used to reach further than people are expecting.

We're watching history repeat itself. There are tons of parallels to Prohibition in terms of how they got people on board to pass it and how it will be used.

The real question is where should I be opening my porn speakeasy?

[Stavros]

The real question is where should I be opening my porn speakeasy?

The 'Dark Web' I assume?

[Stavros]

As Wendy has pointed out above, the core of the Bill is the protection of children, and I don't think anyone who posts to Hung Angels has a problem with that. But as she says, this core issue is sweeping up a lot of consensual activity, as well as challenging the act and legality of 'free speech' in the USA as defined by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

I believe the US is in the position on this issue because of decades of campaigning for a 'Christian' concept of morality that is associated with the 'Moral Majority' movement that, along with other Christian groups emerged in the 1970s to combat what they saw as a decline in morals that began in the 1960s. Charles Murray's relentless attacks on Welfare, and the attacks on the Civil Rights movement through voter suppression are also part of this.

But just as the positive reaction to the massacre at Parkland has raised the question -Should the 2nd Amendment be repealed?- so this issue, because it is both about morality and Constitutional law, raise the question -Should US law be defined by Christians? Which in this case, means Christians of the kind one finds in the US who often seem to believe in and act differently from Christians elsewhere, except in parts of Africa that have been 'turned' by US Evangelicals.

Who then is going to argue against this law by attacking Evangelical Christians and related religious groups? This is, at least, one thread of enquiry that I think politicians are wary of. It is one thing to maintain the Constitutional separation of religion from the State, but quite another to attack Christians who want to join the two together. Thus religion, supposedly removed from the political sphere, is now embedded in it, and you need to debate it.

There is a new article on this in today's Guardian, with Hung Angels briefly mentioned-
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ers-craigslist

[CaptainPlanet]

Today I went to CL personal ads from Tijuana and found they are unchanged. So, I would venture to say that if oh, let's say someone who lives in San Diego or L.A. were to place an ad in Tijuana CL or in CL from other countries BUT had their US phone number then they could get around the issue of not being able to post an ad on San Diego or L.A. CL per se. Follow me?

the actual foot traffic is gone so probably just a big waste of time.

[Lovecox]

the actual foot traffic is gone so probably just a big waste of time.

Oh, you're no fun anymore!

[Yung renzel]

Now all the bait switchers and people who give bad service for money rejoice

They will be scamming mongers out of money

[Sinfullysin]

couldn't they have given some advanced notice?
(I would have jotted down some #'s)

I screen shot my favorites on bp. And will keep in touch with them.

[kia_curious]

If these new laws affect USA based sites why not move the web site to be hosted outside US and possibly outside Europe?