craigslist (i love how craigslist is all lowercase) has settled with 40 states to try to prevent rampant prostitution ads in its “erotic services” section. Sad, because that was one of my favorite places to surf for bizarre entertainment when I was truly bored. (And yet I never figured out what “no greek” means.) What’ll happen to great E-40 lyrics like:

“Smoke herb like a hippie, drink like a pirate,
Wrist real brisk, haters don’t like it,
Jack of all trades, gotta get my chips,
Manipulate your broad, put your chick on craigslist”

Where will pimps like 40 put your broad now?! The man clearly needs his chips.

The full story can be found here, and is excerpted below. (Excerpted? Yikes.)

Craigslist Agrees to Crack Down on Erotic Ads

NEW YORK – Craigslist, the popular Internet classifieds listing service, agreed to crack down on advertisements posted by prostitutes in a pact struck with 40 U.S. states.

The listings site has been under pressure to screen out cyber advertisements that offer sexual services. These listings have given prostitutes easy access to potential clients cruising the Web, law enforcement authorities say.

Craigslist, whose listings are generally free to post except in some apartment and job categories, will require that advertisers in its “erotic services section” pay a fee with a valid credit card and give a working phone number, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said.