Edmonton unlicensed escorts fined almost $134,000:

The city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada fined several unlicensed escorts and agencies a total of $134K Canadian. Not enough to make a serious dent if you ask me. However this article allows me to bring up two points.

The first is that the escorts were mostly found on craigslist and eBay owned Kijiji. Now craigslist is deserving for the scorn and criticism that is heaped upon them for their contribution to the prostitution problem but why has eBay and Village Voice Media, who own backpage, have largely come out of this unscathed?

My second point is this quote from Edmonton Detetctive Chuck Prince...

Prince explained that it’s important to regulate the industry, because if it gets out of control organized crime steps in. That, in turn, can result in turf wars and chaos, as happened years ago when the exotic dancing industry fell into criminal hands and a building was blown up.

Which would result in more unvictims.