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Globe disables entire online business directory until it can figure out how to block escort ads

By adamg on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 8:59am

The Globe reports on itself, quotes a statement from a Globe spokesman that boston.com has turned off a business directory until it can discover how the escort ads highlighted by local blogger Dave Copeland (note to boston.com readers: here's the link you won't find there) got into its system.

Copeland himself praises the Globe for acting quickly, but adds the real point is that pressure on Craigslist to shut down its ads isn't going to stop losers like Markoff:

Let's face it - the Craigslist Killer has a nice ring to it, but he easily could have been the Google Adsense Killer, The Boston Phoenix Killer or the Erotic Review Killer. And, most likely he would have done what he did, one way or another: the guy was sick and needed money and these things happen with or without free speech.

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Comments

By anon on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 9:27am.

Markoff was accused of being the Craigslist Killer, but not convicted. He died of an apparent suicide while awaiting trial in prison.

Come on, you know how this has to work.

By anon on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 11:03am.

Prostitution used to be a sin. Now, no one at the Globe believes in sin - or God - but prostitution is sexist, so we still can't allow the world's oldest profession. The more things change..

By anon on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 12:09pm.

Prostitution IS sexist. If men can't pay their way through college with a $200 per hour night job, then women shouldn't be allowed to either!

By Anon² on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 12:33pm.

supply and demand.

Don't go all communist.