Delaware Attorney General Biden applauds Craigslist’s decision to remove adult advertisements

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE (BNO NEWS) – Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden on Tuesday said that Craigslist did the correct thing by eliminating the section of its U.S. internet site featuring adult-themed classified advertisements.

Biden and 20 more Attorney Generals from other states sent a letter to Craigslist last week calling for the removal of its “Adult Services” section. The claim was made after the website section was repeatedly used to solicit child prostitution and other forms of human trafficking.

“This is about protecting women and children from being sold for sex. This is about nothing but removing a tool horrible people may be using to exploit women and children in a sickening way. Craigslist did the right thing by deleting these ads, and I hope the company never allows such postings to return,” Biden said.

The letter was issued after Craigslist’s inability or unwillingness to regulate its website content. Biden cited an open letter written by two girls to the website where they described the brutal assaults they suffered as a result of published ads in the site.

Biden also mentioned in the letter, a report of a CNN reporter who within three hours of posting fictional advertisement in the section, received 15 telephone calls soliciting sex.

In 2008, entered into an agreement with Delaware, 42 other states and territories, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children under which it would combat inappropriate content and illegal activity in what it was then called its “Erotic Services” section.

However, the Attorney General contended that not only Craigslist failed at blocking or removing the requested content, it continued to collect revenue from the illegal advertisements.

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