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McMaster set to make MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT about Craigslist
Posted on 05/05 at 09:01 AM.

News 2 has learned that South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is preparing to announce that the CEO of Craigslist has 10 days to either remove illegal content from the SC portions of the site, or face prosecution.  McMaster will hold a news conference in Anderson to make the announcement in about an hour.  Read more from the Attorney General’s official press release below…

Press Release:

Attorney General Henry McMaster will travel to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, May 5, 2009, where he will make a major announcement concerning the Internet classified website called craigslist.com.

The press conference will begin at 11:00 a.m. at the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, 305 Camson Road, Anderson, S.C. 29625.

A number of area law enforcement officials, including Anderson County Sheriff John Skipper, Pickens County Sheriff David Stone, and Oconee County Sheriff James Singleton, will join McMaster at the press conference.

In November 2008, craigslist entered into an agreement with forty (40) state Attorneys General and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (“NCMEC”) to put in place safeguards to combat unlawful activity and improve public safety on the craigslist Internet classified service.

Read the agreement here: http://www.counton2extras.com/assets/frameReader/index.php?redirectURL=http://www.scattorneygeneral.com /newsroom/pdf/2009/craigslist.pdf

Recent national events, along with ongoing law enforcement efforts in South Carolina clearly indicate that craigslist has not put in place sufficient safeguards in the last six (6) months to prohibit the Internet site from being used as a vehicle to advertise or solicit prostitution

 
 
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  Posted by BOBBYE - contagious viral infection of lungs treat on 09/30 at 12:41 PM

Craigeslist posted a great article about will S.C. prosecute all websites caught promoteing this Illegal activities.

Well I hope so!

When you get pulled over by a cop you can’t say hey you have to let me go now because there goes one faster than I was doing or atleast close to it!

One more thought when your wife, sister or daughter gets trafficed out of town by some pimp in a sex slave trade will you stick up for this insanity then (prostetution)?

  Posted by c on 09/23 at 11:10 PM

There may be content on Craig’s List that is inappropriate for children.  However, it does not follow that we therefore have to treat everyone as a child.  Parents are responsible for supervising their children, not society.

As adults we have got to start respecting each other and realize that we do not have a right to tell others how to live.  ‘I am not your daddy and you are not my momma.‘

  Posted by Peter on 05/05 at 11:40 AM

You know, even if you completely removed religion from the equation, there are certain things that do need regulated and kept from kids until they’re age appropriate. Certain shocking realities of life effect the development of the psyche differently and more negatively in earlier years than later.

Craigslist is a SEWER, because it’s largely free, and the lowest common denominator therefore of their browsers and advertisers is either low lifes or naive or of low intelligence. Between the human trafficking and other assorted TRASH they facilitate, this is as good a place as any to start policing the Web.

SOMEONE had to blow it and even the porn kings aren’t free open access with no administration.

Craigslist always offers their small staff in comparison to their site size and user base as an excuse for not policing it themselves. I say that’s another way of telling us they can’t do it RIGHT, so they’ll do it crappy, and we’ll all just have to deal.

That’s not good enough.

If it takes a Bible thumping state to say so, fine, at least SOMEONE has some sense of center and direction.  You don’t have to be religious to have some basic idea of right and wrong do you?!

Time to pass the Buckmeister, it’s stopped here long enough.

  Posted by Dave on 05/05 at 11:29 AM

If he was trying to solve the problem here why would he not go after the services listed in the phonebooks? Eliminating one source of prostitution is the same as eliminating one crackhouse. It will manifest into something else and go undetected for years until national attention of such as the craigslist killer(who has not even been proven guilty yet) has gotten. I am worried for our country in the fact that we elect these people to represent our ideals in the name of freedom. However, I see a world where freedom is becoming less and less of what I have ever known. Our government is treating us like little babies at the dinner table, they are strapping us in and giving us our sippy cup to drink, and when we start to get upset they hand us our pacifier.

  Posted by mcmasterPOLITICALgrandstanding on 05/05 at 11:15 AM

Yeah, just like the freedom of speech of a bank robber is violated when he says “Give me all the money”! How dare they violate free speech like that!

Moron.

  Posted by Hello on 05/05 at 11:11 AM

Rod, you’ve made a great observation but you have to remember that Craigslist is a San Francisco based company.  Having moved to SC from SF I can tell you that as much as South Carolinians embrace their Second Amendment rights, San Franciscans embrace their sexual perversions.  If you walk through the Castro District with a gun in a holster people will absolutely freak out.  If, instead of a gun, you have a battery operated adult toy strapped to your belt they will be giving you their phone numbers!  That’s SF in a nutshell.

  Posted by Paul on 05/05 at 11:10 AM

OMG, what next??  Does the government go after the blowhorn or loudphone manufacturer if the people advertising prostitution take up one of those methods of advertising their product?  GET REAL IDIOTS!

Disgusted with government.

  Posted by common sense on 05/05 at 11:07 AM

Hmmm, must be election time in the bible belt.

  Posted by Mike on 05/05 at 11:06 AM

So much for freedom of speech.  While I don’t like the advertising, we all have to be weary of anyone who chooses to prosecute for simple written words ... if the AG doesn’t like it, then the AG ought to go after the people offering the services .... not after craigslist!

  Posted by Will on 05/05 at 10:59 AM

This is a waste of taxpayer time and money—pure grandstanding on the part of McMaster who has political aspirations he hopes to build on via this sort of posturing.

Craig’s List is a mere publishing mechanism for content supplied by others and has no control over, or legal responsibility for, that content.

Assuming the prosecutions are a good idea (a dubious assumption), McMaster should spend his time prosecuting those who are actually responsible for illegal posts.  However, that would be a lot less glamorous and not a cause for a photo opportunity.

  Posted by Peter on 05/05 at 10:57 AM

Make prostitution legal. Problem solved.

  Posted by stizz on 05/05 at 10:55 AM

It’s interesting that craigslist will aggressively remove any ad for a rifle, shotgun or any other type of legal firearm (or accessory), but has until now refused to remove ads that openly offer illegal prostitution.  This doesn’t necessarily make them liable for facilitating prostitution, of course, but it does undermine their reasoning that craigslist is a content neutral classifieds forum.  And given the terrible effect of prostitution on women, I also think it weakens their moral position.

  Posted by Rod on 05/05 at 10:50 AM

I am sure glad the SC Atty General is so willing to protect the people of SC from reading things on the internet.  I hope he makes the prosecution a hate crime too.  After all, Craigslist must hate people from SC.

  Posted by Albert on 05/05 at 10:47 AM

fascist pigs

  Posted by Derrick on 05/05 at 10:45 AM

Go for it…...

  Posted by Terrylee on 05/05 at 10:32 AM

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