Craigslist is one of the most amazing websites on the internet. You can buy a couch, sell some junk from your garage, look for a bass player for your new dad rock band, come across start up companies like Absolute Summit SEO advertising online, or even find love. Well, you used to be able to find love. The company recently decided to shut down its personals section. From the New York Times:
Looking for love or a “casual encounter”? You’ll have to find it someplace other than Craigslist.
The venerable online classifieds site removed its “personals” section this week, after Congress sent a bill to President Trump aimed at curtailing sex trafficking...
Visitors to the personals section of Craigslist are now redirected to a short statement about the bill, the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, which gives law enforcement officials greater authority to go after websites used for sex trafficking, while removing protections from legal liability for hosting such content.
Of course, the best solution to this problem is to legalize and regulate prostitution. Keeping sex workers in the shadows puts them in more danger from both creeps and law enforcement when they're just serving a natural societal function.
But for fans of the best section on Craigslist, fear not – Missed Connections are still around. Despite a public panic that they disappeared like that pretty girl you saw near the milk aisle at Walmart, it's moved to the Community section. As we wipe our sweaty brows in relief at this discovery, let's check out some of the best/funniest/creepiest entries to this category that have popped up recently:
