Founder of Craiglist, Craig Newmark announced that the site will permanently end its adult services section to stop sex trafficking and exploition of minors.
The site temporarily blocked the area where adult services were offered earlier this month after a group of 17 attorneys general demanded that Craigslist shut the operation down. A company official told federal lawmakers Wednesday that the change would be made permanent but still warned that people looking to advertise sexual services would go to other sites.
The announcement follows the death of the so-called Craigslist Killer, Phillip Markoff, who committed suicide in jail in August. The 24-year-old Boston University student was arrested in April 2009 for allegedly murdering a masseuse he met through Craigslist.
I guess now if you are a crazy "killer", you will have to look somewhere else to find your prey... like the personals.
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