In Pasadena, Calif. a federal appeals court in May reinstated a lawsuit that could make Roommates.com liable for want ads that mention gender and sexual orientation preferences.
While all of you are so concerned about underage persons in prostitution, you should know that the majority of victims of child sexual exploitation are not found on street corners or through internet ads.
We already know that Google scans our Gmail to target us with ads and that Facebook scans our inboxes looking for sexual predators and child porn, but many users may not have realized that the links they were exchanging privately resulted in a public though anonymous endorsement of said links.