Instead, it would just drive those activities to other sites, and those sites might not work quite as closely with law enforcement as Craigslist did. In fact, we noted that Craigslist was a very useful tool for law enforcement to actually track down and crack prostitution rings. The report suggested that Facebook had already been growing as a tool for prostitutes, but the exodus from Craigslist may have just sped that whole process up a bit.
Filed Under: grandstanding , prostitution Companies: craigslist , facebook. You sure they were not talking about Attention Whores instead? Since then umm Facebook would be the place! I have just joined twitter. The first two followers i get are prostitutes askin would i like to be a bit of a friend. Or a date.
My wife would go balmy. Well, first, AGs will whine with no legal basis until Facebook creates a special adult section. Then the AGs will whine with no legal basis until Facebook charges a premium to get access to the adult section. Then the AGs will whine with no legal basis because Facebook is making money off of prostitution! The adult section will be shut down, the prostitutes will move somewhere else maybe Twitter is next?
Your run of the mill tramp has been available for free on facebook for since it was created. On Craigslist, law enforcement just had to monitor the adult services section in their area to keep tabs on what was going on. Facebook is completely decentralized so it is going to make their job harder. What we DO know is that these zero tolerance policies are going to make it impossible for law enforcement to figure that out either.
Which puts law enforcement right back at square one. I think the real problem is, they want it to go back underground. You know, out of sight, out of mind. If it is on public websites, they have to acknowledge it and do something about it. It is much easier and more profitable to be out giving traffic tickets than stopping actual crime.
