While browsing the web, I just noticed that seattlepi.com carried a story about a half page ad apparently financed by the Rebecca Project for Human Rights on behalf of a pair of girls, AK and MC, who were aledgedly prostituted on craigslist. But, this story was dated back in May. Perhaps AK and MC are all they have, so they keep repeating the story.
The Rebecca Project for Human Rights, in attacking adult ads on craigslist, apparently doesn’t consider control over your own body a human right. The single roof that these activist organizations seem to share is their opposition to prostitution. The fact that they are hurting both adult women and children in the process is merely an inconvenient truth.
There is nothing new about the kind of advertizing posted on craigslist aside from the sheer volume of ads published there. The accusation that craigslist is the “Walmart of online sex trafficking” is telling. It reminds me of a similar vocal nationwide campaign against actual Walmart stores by people who simply don’t like Walmart.
If this witch hunt against craigslist continues, I will probably have to add a category just for them. This is shaping up to be another destructive fiasco like the crusade against “big tobacco” or silicone breast implants.