Craigslist announced Friday so it eliminated personal ads – a well known, albeit possibly dangerous solution – from its local internet sites after the passing of the Fight on line Intercourse Trafficking Act (FOSTA) in Congress.
FOSTA, or H.R. 1865, repealed a previous law that supplied “legal security to internet sites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution and web sites that facilitate traffickers in marketing the sale of illegal intercourse functions with intercourse trafficking victims.”