Craigslist is back in the hot seat over the Adult Services category on its popular classified advertising site. Craigslist, which is known for running classified advertisements for everything from toasters to treadmills, would not respond to questions about whether executives are considering removing the Adult Services category.
In May , the site relented to growing pressure to remove the Erotic Services category from its site. Buckmaster vowed at the time that every ad in Adult Services would be manually reviewed before it appeared on the Web site. The Erotic Services category on Craigslist was under heavy fire last year after Boston University medical student Philip Markoff was arrested and for allegedly murdering one woman and kidnapping and assaulting another after meeting both through erotic services ads on Craigslist.
Later, Markoff also was charged with assault and weapons charges for allegedly using a gun to threaten a woman in a Rhode Island hotel on April 16, The woman told police that she had met her assailant through an ad on Craigslist.
Earlier this month, Markoff killed himself in a Boston jail cell. He had been scheduled to go to trial in March Sharon Gaudin covers the Internet and Web 2. Her e-mail address is sgaudin computerworld. Home Computers and Peripherals Craigslist under fire again for 'adult services' ads. Computers and Peripherals Networking.
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