Sooner or later, the sex ads will be pushed to the deepest, darkest arcane part of the net called Usenet. (Or a modern equivalent with a torrent DHT setup for finding other servers.)
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Oh boy, another eternal September. I can hardly wait.
I don’t know if OK Cupid is still a thing, but IIRC that site had an incredibly deep personality profiling aspect that you could use as your primary search criteria if you wished, although of course pics are attached.
Its surprisingly common in some areas. I don’t particularly care for pot, and haven’t ever really sought it out to purchase. The rare instances when I wanted to in the past it was more a “hey I know that guy” situation.
But when I lived in Brooklyn. Friends who do particularly care for pot. And were often in search of a regular source of better pot. Would some times get a connect on Craigslist. Its not as if there was an ad on there “pot for sale”. It was more than high end delivery services would post cryptic ads as like dog walking and cleaning services. Or even as sex ads. You’d either spot the hints and contact a bunch till you got a response. Or some one would tell you what business name to look for and you’d contact them with the referral. And whatever group/fake company it was would dispatch the local guy to you. A lot of them had rotating/changing numbers so until you had a direct relationship with the actual dealer, even your regular service you’d have to get that weeks contact through the public ad. In a real pinch there’d be like personal ads that were really clearly about pot and you’d just call and it’d be super sketchy.
So less buying pot off Craigslist than sites like Craigslist became one venue for getting in touch with some one to buy weed from. It was all still mostly word of mouth and referral. All very wink wink nudge nudge.
I dunno if that’s still a thing or if Craigslist is still a place to do it. Like I said don’t get into that sort of thing, and haven’t lived in Brooklyn or with/near stoners for quite a while.
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Oh I know it happens. And it’s super sketchy. That’s why any serious cannabis user should develop a good relationship with a discreet and careful dealer, the kind that wouldn’t touch Craigslist with a ten-meter pole.
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Well the call a random dude who’s clearly selling pot and hope he doesn’t rob you end of it certainly was. But anything involving those “delivery service” sorts of things most definitely wasn’t. Was less sketchy than buying a car off Craigslist (which is admittedly pretty sketchy).
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A thread on sex worker advocacy actions across the country:
https://twitter.com/anaorsomething/status/976588958468521985
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More totalitarian bullshit, this.
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Good luck finding a bunch of folks more able to handle truth.
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I didn’t address you directly. And I declined to do so because I had a suspicion that you were a…
…one of those evangelical zealots who’s reality is so warped you think you’re helping fix the problem in your misguided crusade. And lo and behold my suspicions were correct. Also, as loathe as I am to engage with you…
…most people know whether they’ve known hundreds or thousands of individuals.
No one denies that sex trafficking exists, so nice strawman. This is a shite law that will make life more dangerous for sex workers and do nothing to stop trafficking.
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Missed Connections was moved to the Community section. Totally still available.
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Nope, they moved it to Community along with Missed Connections.
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Jack Nicholson’s character said that. He was acting.
Jack did however say:
“I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.“
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The problem is, this is only if the site does not “facilitate prostitution.”
The issue is, for example, that if someone starts a BBS topic to facilitate prostitution (and it slips my human, fallible moderators view), then now Boing Boing is liable. Even if instead they use code words in, say, a “BBS game” post that is later determined to be code for prostitution. Now we are liable, because, knowingly or not, we have “facilitated” the act.
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sigh
How is this legal?
but guns?
Gun makers - ahem? If they sell guns on line can we apply this?
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Ottoman seeking Hassock mercenary, for empire building.
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none of the master debaters are on payroll, but you do have some cunning linguists in house.
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