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Mashable Readers Say Craigslist Should Not Be Censored

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Over the weekend, we noticed Craiglist had replaced a certain notorious section of its site with a black bar reading “censored.”

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:

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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.

As of this moment, we’re not sure if or when the site’s adult section will be back online or why it was taken down in the first place. While prostitution isn’t likely to become legal in the U.S. any time soon, we’ll keep you posted on Craigslist’s dilemma as more details become available.

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    Should Craigslist’s “Adult Services” Be Censored? [POLL]

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    This weekend, Craigslist removed its notorious “Adult Services” classifieds section in U.S. markets and replaced it with a black bar that read “censored,” implying that pressure from law enforcement or the legal and political systems of the country became too much to resist.

    Craigslist is playing for sympathy, but will it get that sympathy from the public? We’ve put together this poll to find out.

    There’s something to be said for the free flow of information on the Internet; you know we believe in that general rule. But Adult Services (formerly “Erotic Services”) has been used by prostitutes since its inception — and by at least one serial killer who hunted them. Craigslist stood to gain $36 million in revenue from the adult services classifieds in 2010 according to an estimate from the Advanced Interactive Media (AIM) Group.

    Was Craigslist profiting from prostitution, or facilitating free speech and standing for the fundamental principles on which the Internet and the United States were both (supposedly) founded? Answer in our poll, and feel free to discuss your answer in the comments.

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