Craigslist is on Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster's shit list. Koster wants the online marketplace to clean up its "erotic services" ads, close them or face legal action. Chris KosterKoster and two other attorneys general delivered their demands to Craigslist's founder and CEO yesterday. Koster told the Columbia Daily Tribune that the meeting was polite but unproductive because Craigslist considers this a First Amendment issue. Koster said that 85 percent or more of erotic services' traffi
Photo by Gene X. HwangCraigslist founder Craig Newmark (left) and Craigslist CEO Jim BuckmasterCraigslist is dumping its "erotic services" ads in the next week and will replace them with an adult services section where the ads are manually approved and cost $10, the Los Angeles Times reports. Craigslist won't be accepting new erotic services ads, starting today. This is all in the wake of the so-called "Craigslist Killer" and threats from three attorneys general (including Missouri's Chris Kost
Chris KosterMissouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Thursday that 373 sex offenders were recently purged from MySpace and their info shipped off to the Missouri Highway Patrol. Uh, you might be a couple of years late. I mean, who uses, MySpace anymore? Other than sex offenders.
"I will continue to aggressively pursue any avenue sex offenders use to
threaten the safety of our children," Koster said in a statement.
Psst. Everyone is on Facebook and Twitter now.
