Craigslist has confirmed that it removed its controversial adult services section from its international sites, Connecticut's attorney general said Tuesday, four months after it did the same for its U.
The U. Blumenthal, who is also a U. Senator-elect, says Craigslist representatives confirmed to his office Tuesday that it had removed erotic services listings from hundreds of sites in dozens of other countries. Representatives of San Francisco-based Craigslist did not immediately return messages Tuesday about when the change went into effect. A Craigslist official told U. It tried to police the postings on its adult services page by charging a fee to post the ads and requiring them to be vetted and approved.
The website has also come under increased scrutiny since the September jailhouse suicide of year-old Philip Markoff, a former Boston University student. Rhode Island prosecutors also accused him of attacking a stripper.
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