By Joshua Brustein, Bloomberg News
In 2010, the seedy business of online prostitution lost a major platform when Craigslist, the eponymous web bazaar for everything from jobs to apartments, bowed to criticism for facilitating sex trafficking and shuttered the adult categories on its site.
Government officials, including Kamala Harris, then the district attorney for San Francisco, had been pressuring the company to get rid of the sex trade ads for years. Shortly afterwards, Harris became California’s attorney general. She’d spend the next six years grappling with a new adversary.
The online sex trade didn’t disappear when Craigslist got out of the game; ...
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