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Craigslist Adult Services "Censored"; The Human Cost of War; Sperm Donor Siblings; Coaching NFL Players off the Field; Social Media 101
Aired September 04, 2010 - 22:00 ET
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TOM FOREMAN, CNN ANCHOR: It's been called the Wal-Mart of sex trafficking, the controversial adult services section of Craigslist, but suddenly it is censored this weekend and the company will not say why. What happened?
Fame, money, power. There's no limit to the temptations for many NFL players, but one team at the start of this season is pushing their stars to make better decisions off the field. Atlantic quarterback Matt Ryan takes us inside an unconventional university.
And you don't know about Facebook and Twitter, but you're too embarrassed to admit it? Well, maybe what you need is a social media makeover. There's no better time than now with the kids going back to school. We'll take a look at everything you need to know to join the digital generation.
I'm Tom Foreman. A huge shake-up in the online world tonight involving Craigslist. The highly popular Web site that's been a hit with accusations of promoting prostitution and child trafficking. Anybody trying to access the adult services section in the U.S. is finding instead of the words that's at the adult section, they find the word censored. The people who run Craigslist are not yet explaining the change but the potential ramifications are huge.
In Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal said the move was voluntary after he and 16 other state attorneys general sent a letter to Craigslist demanding action.
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RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, CONNECTICUT ATTORNEY GENERAL: Craigslist either cannot or will not effectively screen out the ads. And so, Craigslist really voluntarily did the right thing as the result of our jawboning and talking to them. But I think that it can be a model for other sites that may either enable or encourage prostitution ads.
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FOREMAN: Leading CNN's groundbreaking investigation into all of this has been our own Amber Lyon.
AMBER LYON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: If you go to any part of Craigslist, any city in the U.S. and scroll down to where the adult service's section used to be, you're now greeted with this black bar that says "censored" and you cannot access the section.
We've been trying to get ahold of Craigslist to find out if this is permanent. We have not been able to get ahold of them so far. But one thing is for sure, this section on Craigslist has caused a ton of controversy with victims' advocates and attorneys general for the past several years saying that women and children are being sold like sex slaves on this portion of the site against their will.
So in May of 2009 -- here, I'll give you a little history -- Craigslist came out and said, "You know what, we're going to manually screen these ads to protect these women and children."
So, here at CNN, we conducted an investigation to kind of put a check on Craigslist, see if they were doing what they were promising the public they were doing and we posted, we created this ad where we clearly wrote $200 an hour that we are charging a price. Also, we put these words, "sweet," "innocent," "new girl" -- which could indicate that this was a minor being sex trafficked.
Now, despite the fact that this ad broke all of Craigslist's rules, it was still posted online anyway and we brought the results of our investigation to the founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark.
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LYON: One of the big things going on with Craigslist right now is that they are saying that they're monitoring all these ads that come through on adult services to check to see if any of these girls are under age or young. So, we put some words in here: "sweet," "innocent," "new girl." We're going to see what happen. We'll see if Craigslist kind of let her ad post. We'll also see, you know, what kinds of calls we get.
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CALLER: I saw your ad on Craigslist.
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LYON: Hello?
CALLER: Yes. What's your donation for an hour in-call?
LYON: So, what is that now? We've had 15 calls. And the ad's only been out for three hours -- 15 calls in three hours.
(voice-over): Craigslist says its staff manually screens all of these adult service's ads and will reject any that make it look or sound like you're selling sex. That may not be easy but when we looked through the ads, most of them are pretty blatant.
The FAIR Fund investigates juvenile trafficking.
ANDREA POWELL, FAIR FUND: And most of the young people that we've worked with has exploited on line. Talk about Craigslist, I'm not talking about the other sites, Craigslist is like the "Walmart" of online sex trafficking.
LYON (on camera): So, we're here at George Washington University and we just found out that Craig Newmark, he's the founder of Craigslist, is going to be speaking here today at a tech conference. He doesn't know we're coming and he's been very media shy lately about all of these allegations against him. This is guy the Craig in Craigslist. It's his list.
So, can people trust that children are not being sex trafficked on Craigslist?
CRAIG NEWMARK, FOUNDER, CRAIGSLIST: I think we explained that pretty thoroughly, no doubt.
LYON: That's where Jim Buckmaster says that you will immediately contact law enforcement if you suspect any ads --
NEWMARK: Jim does a great job showing that we do more than anyone in this area -- pretty good for a community of 50 million people.
LYON: This is Inspector Brian Bray with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. He's also in charge of the prostitution enforcement unit.
In Craigslist's blog, they say that they're going to immediately contact law enforcement any time they see a suspicious ad and you say you've never been contacted by them.
BRIAN BRAY, DC METROPOLITAN POLICE: That's correct. If they're -- if they're notifying, I'm not sure if they're notifying the right people because we're not getting the call.
LYON: What are you guys doing to protect these girls?
You guys say in the blog that you will remove any ad that looks like the person might be suggesting they're going to offer sex. Look at this ad. It says, young, sexy, sweet and bubbly. Clearly here, she writes, $250 an hour. I mean, what do you think she's selling in her bra and underwear, a dinner date? And she's in her bra and underwear.
NEWMARK: Have you reported this to us?
LYON: What are your guys doing?
But you guys say you screen all these manually on your blog.
NEWMARK: I've never -- I don't know what this is. Have you reported --
LYON: In Jim Buckmaster's blog, he says these are being screened.
NEWMARK: Have you reported this to us?
LYON: Why do I have the responsibility to report this to you when it's your Web site? You're the one posting this online. I just want to know, I mean -- OK. It's just that we've run into a lot of victims and a lot of advocates that pretty much call your site the "Walmart" of child sex trafficking.
(voice-over): In 2008, Craigslist agreed to report any suspicious ads to the Center for the Missing and Exploited Children which works with police to find and rescue trafficking victims. Two years and hundreds of thousands of sketchy ads later, the center says Craigslist has reported fewer than 100.
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FOREMAN: And, Amber, if I understand this correctly, when you did this, when you investigated them this way, Craigslist response to all this was to suggest that somehow, the problem was you?
LYON: Yes. That's right, Tom. It's like, you know, "kill the messenger" philosophy. They tried to shift the focus from the real issue here to me and really came out trying to slam my ethics and CNN's ethics. And -- you know, Tom, I always say, you can call me whatever name you want, but, please don't question my ethics as a journalist.
I want to show you something Craig Newmark wrote. He wrote this op-ed for "The San Francisco Chronicle." He calls it, "Amber's Ambush," calling an interview with him an ambush. It was not an ambush. And he also says that we approached him after an event where he had just spoken about stuff like getting real support for our troops and veterans.
Well, we found a copy of the exact speech Craig Newmark was giving the day we approached him, it's called, "Trust is the new black." Not once in this 10-minute long speech does Craig mention anything about veterans or even soldiers for that matter. You can YouTube it if you want to check it out and kind of see what the meaning was.
In addition to that, we said, he said that we ambushed him. Well, we didn't. After Craig gave this speech, he was inside the building. We approached him, identified ourselves as being with CNN and told him we wanted to speak with him about the topic of his speech, trust. Craig agreed. He casually walked outside with us and we even switched locations at one point because he didn't want the sun in his eyes.
And as you see there, Craig could have walked away at any point. At one point, he did walk away. I didn't even follow him. I let him go. And then he came back to me and that's when I continued to ask him more questions.
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FOREMAN: Our thanks to amber.
So, are these changes that have happened this weekend on Craigslist enough to satisfy critics? We will ask one who very recently said, quote, "Craigslist has made selling children a virtual stop and shop for predators." Watch for that coming up at the half hour.
Speaking of our troops, there is news out of Afghanistan this weekend. President Hamid Karzai has taken another step that may well infuriate some military veterans and their families announcing he will establish a peace council to promote reconciliation with the Taliban after more than nine years of fighting them.
He has made similar proposals before but this is his most concrete step in that direction. U.S. military leaders have said the idea of luring lower level Taliban fighters into a peaceful alliance shows some promise, somewhat like the awakening movement in Iraq. What's not so clear is how or if such a program would work in Afghanistan.
So, when we come back --
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I knew I didn't feel anything. It was a really big pressure wave. I tilted my head back and close my eyes and I reached my right hand down to my legs, and I don't remember feeling anything.
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FOREMAN: One soldier shares his emotional story on surviving war, coming home, and the shocking moment when he realized his life had changed forever.
And on the home front, if you're spending the holiday weekend on the east coast beaches soaking up the post hurricane sun, that's fine. Just stay on the sand. Earl is gone, but our Jacqui Jeras says the water is still very dangerous.
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FOREMAN: We all marked a milestone this week. After more than seven years America's combat mission in Iraq officially came to an end. But for the wounded men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan you might argue that it will never really be over.
Here are some harrowing numbers. Nearly 6,000 men and women have been killed in the two wars. Thousands more injured. Captain Dan Berschinski is one of those. He lost both of his legs just over a year ago in Afghanistan. And while he is back on U.S. soil, he has a long, painful fight ahead of him and he's not alone on this landmark week.
Brooke Baldwin has that story.
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BALDWIN (voice-over): Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, Taliban's stronghold, one of the most dangerous assignments for U.S. troops and First Lieutenant Dan Berschinski's new home, one month into his deployment.
CAPT. DAN BERSCHINSKI: People were ambivalent at best and outwardly hostile, most commonly. Rocks and thumbs down, middle fingers up.
BALDWIN: From his first mission outside the wire, this West Point graduate realized every day had the potential to be deadly.
BERSCHINSKI: My very first mission, I watched three IEDS go off in succession on a group. So, from the very first day, it was like, hey, game on. This place is not friendly. Let's try to keep ourselves off the road as much as possible.
BALDWIN: To keep off the road, soldiers would stick to dirt trails, even orchards. That's where his platoon was patrolling on August 18th of last year.
BERSCHINSKI: We heard an explosion. You could see the dust rise up over the trees.
BALDWIN: An IED had been triggered, and, soon after, another explosion. Two men were killed. Berschinski, unscathed, had to hold the area so they could search for the bodies come daylight. And, as he was walking down a trail, steps from his compound, another blast.
BERSCHINSKI: I don't really remember sound or a flash. I just remember pressure. But, immediately, I knew what had happened. And the next thing I know, I'm just opening my eyes in a bright room in the ICU here at Walter Reed.
I never even understand the - the gravity of my injuries.
BALDWIN (on camera): Who told you? The doctor?
BERSCHINSKI: They tell you, but it doesn't sink in until you really have the strength and the mental clarity to, like, lift your sheets and look. I'm kind of at the point I can walk with one hand, so that's the first step to being able to walk with one cane.
BALDWIN (voice-over): Dan's left leg, amputated above the knee. His right, at the hip.
A year after the attack --
BERSCHINSKI: It's a bit frustrating. I wake up every morning and I go, maybe it was all a dream. And I think about just swinging my legs over the edge of the bed and hopping into the shower, but so far it hasn't come true. So then I just go, oh, crap. Back -- back to that.
BALDWIN: Here in Walter Reed, Dan, now a captain, knows pain is the price of progress. Ask his physical therapist, his recovery is faster than anyone predicted.
BO BERGEROAN, WALTER REED CLINICAL SUPERVISOR: Time wise, I think it's remarkable. From the very beginning, he's been one of those guys that he gets frustrated and he's determined to make it work.
BALDWIN: Dan is taking his rehab step by step. And, as he remembers that day in Afghanistan, this Georgia native says he wouldn't have wished it any other way. BERSCHINSKI: Quite honestly, if it hadn't been me walking through those orchards in Afghanistan, it would have been some other 25-year- old infantry lieutenant. Really, I have no regrets. I think it was worthwhile.
BALDWIN (on camera): No regrets?
BERSCHINSKI: Yes. No regrets. It's -- and I apologize because it's kind of -- I have to double-check in my head. But, yes, I've thought about it quite a bit, and I really don't think I have any regrets.
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FOREMAN: And of course our best to Captain Berschinski and all of our troops on this landmark week.
In a moment, we're going to turn back to the Internet where we started tonight with a very different take on it. Are you intimidated by Facebook and Twitter? You don't really have to worry about that. Two people navigate social media for the first time with some help, and our expert will share some tips that might help you online, too.
And the family that used the Web to find each other and connect for the very first time.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Personally I think our relationship is probably one of the best brother-sister relationships that anyone could ever ask for.
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FOREMAN: Children of an anonymous sperm donor raised in different homes yet brothers and sisters just the same.
Stay with us.
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FOREMAN: It sounds strange to say it but when it comes to the movie box office this could be called the summer of the sperm donor.
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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: A party for insemination?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Only Cassie would do it like this.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I'm Roland, the donor.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I'm Cassie's best friend.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Oh, that's OK.
(END VIDEO CLIP) FOREMAN: Yes, look at that. Several movies have come out including this one called "The Switch" that spotlights mothers who use sperm donation. The technology has created a new kind of family tie, the sperm donor sibling. Kids born from the same sperm donor are finding each other online, often using the Web site DonorSiblingRegistry.com.
In the best cases they're becoming part of each other's lives and happy about it. That's how it's turned out for two sets of twins shown here with their parents. The Clapoff twins from California are on the left there. The Jacobsons from Georgia are on the right. Jayme Clapoff told me about the first time she and her brother Jesse heard from their half siblings.
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JAYME CLAPOFF, BORN FROM SPERM DONATION: I was just really excited, first to know we had half siblings who are the same age as us and like shared common interests. So I was just -- like Helete said, it was a little awkward at first, but I just really wanted to get to know them more.
FOREMAN: Well, I have to tell you. Right now everybody in America, including me is looking at the four of you and saying, do you look like you are all part of the same family?
Jesse, talk to me about how you behave. Describe the relationship among four of you. We have pictures of you all vacationing together in Hawaii. You also have messages there on Facebook. It would have been quite easy for you to all say, hello, nice to meet you, now let's move on and forget about it. Why not? Why have you not done that?
JESSE CLAPOFF, BORN FROM SPERM DONATION: Well, personally, I think our relationship is probably one of the best brother and sister relationships that anyone could ever ask for. I mean, we're all similar in the same ways, you know, we have the same sense of humor. We're all athletic in our own ways. We're creative. And we just all kind of click together.
From the first time we met each other, we just said, wow, this is going to be a great relationship. And we should definitely just keep on keeping in touch really and never let this relationship end.
FOREMAN: Jonah, talk to me a little bit about this. These are people you had never met before. Genuinely, you felt like when you were around them these were more like family than strangers?
JONAH JACOBSON, BORN FROM SPERM DONATION: Oh, absolutely. Right when we met, of course it was awkward because we had never met in person before. But you definitely feel a bond right away like your siblings. I kind of think of it as a combination between your best friend and a cousin. That's just how it feels to me.
FOREMAN: We have a photograph of you with another one of these donor siblings, Jesse Bogden (ph). I think that's how we pronounce it here. How many others siblings are there from this donor that you are aware of? JONAH JACOBSON: Right now there are 15 including Helete and I. And we have only met, I think, eight in person.
FOREMAN: Do you keep in touch with them as you do these folks in California?
HELETE JACOBSON, BORN FROM SPERM DONATION: We keep in touch mostly with Jayme and Jesse. But there are others around the country that we do Facebook with, call sometimes, e-mail back and forth. So it's different for every -- I think some other siblings also talk to each other different amounts than we do. But yes everyone definitely has a good communication.
FOREMAN: Let me start with the two of you out in California with this question. Do you want to know who Donor 1096 is, and would you like to meet him?
JAYME CLAPOFF: I personally would like to just see who the donor -- or my biological father is just because I have never had that father figure, but just to see -- I would love to see if we have any similarities. But I love the life I have right now with my mom and my brother and having -- I would like to meet him, but it's not really a big priority in my life that I want to seek and find him further than just see a picture or know about him through the Donor Sibling Registry Web site.
FOREMAN: Let's get the other answer from California. What do you think?
JESSE CLAPOFF: Well, I think it would be cool to meet him. As Jayme said, it would be really nice to see the similarities we share. But if we don't meet him in our lifetime it's not the biggest deal to me. I love my mom. I love Jayme. I love Helete and Jonah and their family. So to me, they are just what I need. But if it turns out we do meet our biological father it will be a great experience.
FOREMAN: Well, Jesse, as you said that, Helete and Jonah were nodding here as well. How do you feel about the notion of meeting this person, the donor?
JONAH JACOBSON: I personally don't feel like I really want to meet him. But definitely to see a picture, to see if we have any similarities and what kind of features that we share with him.
FOREMAN: Helete, you get the final word here. What do you think? Is this a good idea to meet the original donor of all this?
HELETE JACOBSON: My personal opinion, I don't have any -- I don't feel any bond with our donor, but I know other siblings feel differently. But I think a picture would be cool to see the similarities.
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FOREMAN: We have a warning tonight for all of you enjoying the east coast beaches on this Labor Day weekend. Stay out of the water. Our Jacqui Jeras says it is too dangerous to get into the Atlantic Ocean. How can that be? The hurricane has passed. Well, it's true. All along the east coast. Stay tune, you'll be update.
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FOREMAN: Let's check out some of our top stories tonight. Christ Church, New Zealand, and surrounding communities are still picking up the pieces from that powerful 7.0 earthquake we all heard about. No deaths. But it does turn out that two people were seriously hurt and of course the damage was extensive. A state of emergency has been imposed while authorities scramble to repair and restore all the services they lost.
The fire at a mosque construction site in Tennessee has now been determined to be arson, but so far no suspects. It happened last weekend on the spot where the new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro will stand. Flames destroyed a big earth mover and damaged three other vehicles. The site has attracted protesters this summer both for and against that mosque.
In the Gulf of Mexico, BP has installed a new blow-out preventer, a top that's plugged well. The original blow-out preventer is being hauled to the surface for analysis. BP still plans to complete its relief well as promised and execute a so called "bottom kill" to make sure that that formerly leaking well is sealed for good.
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater is now a former JetBlue employee. The airline confirms to CNN tonight that Slater is no longer with JetBlue. Slater achieved instant fame last month when he opened the emergency chute and exited the plane with a couple of beers. Depending on whom you believe, he either got fed up with rude passengers or he instigated a confrontation with the passenger. Slater has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of reckless endangerment and criminal mischief and that he overstayed his 15 minutes of fame by about 30 minutes.
Tropical Storm Earl beat up parts of eastern Canada today. Take a look at this. The rough waters in this bay in Moncton, New Brunswick, docks twisted and boats overturned in neighboring Nova Scotia. 200,000 people lost power in 70-mile-an-hour winds ripping down power lines. The U.S. East Coast sort of dodged the bullet in all of this, but the storm is still going to have an impact on the beaches this holiday weekend. From Florida to Maine lifeguards are warning folks at the beach to keep out of the water because of the dangerous rip currents.
Meteorologist Jacqui Jeras joins us right now to explain this whole thing. Am I got to think this is a very dangerous situation because when a hurricane is coming you know it's dangerous, when the sun is shining you think, come on, it's a nice beach.
JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I know. Yes, you go outside and it's absolutely beautiful. The sun was shining all day long here. You can see tropical storm Earl way up there in the Canadian Maritimes, and you think no worries, right? Well, unfortunately it takes a little while for some of those big waves and that ocean to calm down, right? You make a big splash in the swimming pool and it sloshes back and forth for a while. And that's exactly what's going on here with Earl. High pressure is in place. It looks great. Your temperatures haven't been this good. You know, feeling this dry across the east coast, really for weeks. And then Earl comes through.
And so we have got all of this wave motion. And what happens is that as those waves head up towards the coast, it collects and builds up here towards the surface. Well, eventually, what happens is that builds up and it has to go back, doesn't it? Well, it will break through the sandbars. And you know as Earl comes in and churns up that water and that sand, more sandbars are developed and so it will break on through there. It's a fast channel of water. Not very wide. Only 20 to 100 feet or so and it moves so fast that even an Olympic swimmer would have a hard time outswimming this thing.
So what do you do if you get caught in one of these things? Well, you want to try and swim parallel to the shore line because that will give you out of that nearer current into the calmer waters. And hopefully you can make your way back towards the coast.
You know, they did have several rescues today. These are some pictures from Ocean City, Maryland. Last weekend they had 200 rescues. Today just a couple. But look at those crashing waves. Yes, the sun is shining so it looks great. The lifeguards out in full force. Those red flags have been flying.
Sometimes you can see these rip currents ahead of time if you maybe go to the hotel or the condo maybe that you're staying. Go to the balcony, you get a little bit of an aerial view and sometimes you can see these fast channels of water that are not always this obvious. But usually when there's one, there's a whole heck of a lot more of them. High risk of these rip currents was out there today. Tomorrow it will be a moderate to high risk, and we think they'll wane off a little bit as you head into Monday. Monday might be your day to make into the water. Otherwise, you're going to have to hit that pool.
FOREMAN: Again, the blue swimsuit, looked like he was yelling at you.
JERAS: Not me.
FOREMAN: He was upset about the rip currents. Thanks, Jacqui.
The online classified ads like Craigslist is making news this weekend. It's been called the single largest source of prostitution in America. Imagine having that said about a company. CNN challenged its founder on how it was trying to clean up the site.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What are you guys doing to protect these girls?
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FOREMAN: Well, we will tell you what users saw when they logged in today. Stay with us.
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FOREMAN: As promised we're going back now to our top story tonight. The news that if you go on to Craigslist in the U.S. tonight you will see the word "Censored" where the link to adult services used to be. This is very, very big news. This came after the popular classified Web site was hit with accusations of promoting prostitution and child trafficking. Those accusations have been stepping up and up and up. We're getting some reaction tonight to the big news.
And Malika Saada Saar has been one of the people making those accusations. She's the executive director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights which defends women and girls.
Malika, let me start with the basic question here. This is a big change for Craigslist. Are you satisfied? Are you happy? What are you thinking?
MALIKA SAADA SAAR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, REBECCA PROJECT: We are very pleased that they decided to dismantle the number one Web site for child trafficking and prostitution. What we hope, though, is that they can do this not only in the U.S. but they can shut down the site internationally as well so that children in France, in India, in Canada, in Thailand are not being bought and sold off of Craigslist.
FOREMAN: Last month you wrote a very tough opinion piece on CNN.com about two girls allegedly trafficked for sex through Craigslist. Do you think that your letter and the reporting on this and the pressure from the attorneys general is really what led to this? And tell me about that letter.
SAADA SAAR: I hope so. This was a letter written by two young women who were survivors of domestic trafficking. One was a child when she was trafficked for sex through Craigslist. The other was an adult woman. And both of them had endured being injured, exploited, subject to violence because they were sold for sex through Craigslist. And now that they are on the other side of it, they pleaded with Craig Newmark to stop selling children, and girls and women for sex through his Web site.
And I think there's something very powerful about their courage to speak to their own team and their own injury and ask him to take the moral decision, the correct decision in shutting down the site.
FOREMAN: You mentioned Craig Newmark here. I want to play a little piece of Amber Lyon's interview with him and get your reaction.
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AMBER LYON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: But you guys say you screen all these manually on your blog.
CRAIG NEWMARK, FOUNDER, CRAIGSLIST: I've never -- I don't know what this is. Have you reported --
LYON: In Jim Buckmaster's blog, he says these are being screened.
NEWMARK: Have you reported this to us?
LYON: Why do I have the responsibility to report this to you when it's your Web site? You're the one posting this online.
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FOREMAN: Do you take this move by Craigslist this weekend to be an admission of responsibility in this?
SAADA SAAR: I do. I absolutely see it as his admission that his site was hurting children, that his site was responsible for child prostitution and sex trafficking, and that he made the correct decision, a decision to protect children and decide that no longer would he allow his site to be used for pimping and trafficking of our most vulnerable children.
So I do commend him in that, but I ask him to go further and make sure that the value of a life of child in India or anywhere where Craigslist exists internationally. That the value of that child is as important as the value of a child here in the U.S. who is being subject to sexual exploitation.
FOREMAN: All right. Well, Malika Saada Saar, thanks so much for coming in and joining us tonight to talk about all of this.
We want to remind our viewers out there, we've reached out to Craigslist. We will continue to do so. We would like to hear them explain what has happened, and what's going on. We hope they will come up and explain it to you, all of our viewers, sometime in the very near future.
You know, one of the best things you can do if you want to deal with this on a personal level in your own home is to understand what's going online. Jumping on the social media bandwagon whether or not you want to. It can be done. Take a look.
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KATIE LINENDOLL, TECH EXPERT: Log on.
First things first, you need to upload a photo. And I like to say upload your best photo even if it doesn't look like you, because that's what everybody on Facebook does.
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FOREMAN: It doesn't have to be that hard. It could be fun. Tips from Katie Linendoll on getting savvy with social media. It's important and a good time.
Stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) FOREMAN: Kids all across the U.S. are heading back to school of course during these weeks. Many wearing new clothes, carrying new backpacks, school supplies. But in Cambodia the cost of even the basic supplies often can keep children from attending class. This week's "CNN HERO," a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime uses money she earns as a tour guide to educate the poor.
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PONHEARY LY, CNN HERO: In the countryside in Cambodia, some children, they come to school, but not very regular because the family needs to have them in the farm.
The school is free, but they don't have any money. How can they have the money for uniforms and supplies?
My name is Ponheary Ly. I help the children go to school. The education is important for me because my father was a teacher.
During the Khmer Rouge time, my father was killed. If we tried to study we could be killed. My soul always go to school.
At the beginning, I got only one girl. After that, 40 children. And now 2,000.
After several years, I see the change, because they know how to read and write and they borrow the books from our library to read for their parents.
I need them to have a good education to build their own family, as well as to build their own country.
My father he has to be proud of me here in heaven and in my heart.
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FOREMAN: Ponheary Ly and her organization have helped more than 2,000 children receive an education.
To find out how you can help, go to CNNHEROES.com.
Coming up, keeping NFL players on the straight and narrow as a new season approaches. Applying the lessons learned from pro-football's infamous scandals, that's coming up soon.
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FOREMAN: The new NFL season starts in a week which means we can all start looking for those instances where some player lets the money and fame go to his head and does something not very bright. But one team is really hoping to avoid that by doing a different kind of coaching this year with the help of speakers like our own Don Lemon, and he brings us the story in tonight's "What Matters."
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DON LEMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When you're an NFL player on the field, there's always a coach watching to whip you into shape. Off the field, it's a different story. Players making names for themselves in all the wrong ways, bad decisions, bad role models, bad habits that teams like the Atlanta Falcons have seen too much of in the past.
ARTHUR BLANK, OWNER, ATLANTA FALCONS: I think we did whatever we could with Michael. A lot of him and a lot of it was folks that he associated with.
LEMON: In the aftermath of the Michael Vicks scandal, the Falcons found themselves fighting the perception that NFL players have too much money, not enough brains.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I really want you to think about planning for what each of you wants to do in the community.
LEMON: Welcome to Falcons U, a crash course that teaches players how to handle themselves when they're out of pads.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't give until it hurts. Give until it feels good.
LEMON (on camera): If there were more Falcons U programs, do you think we wouldn't hear about the Vicks, the Roethlisbergers?
MATT RYAN, QUARTERBACK, ATLANTA FALCONS: You do see a lot of negative things about players in the NFL, but it's such a small minority.
LEMON (voice-over): Quarterback Matt Ryan attended this year's summit along with dozens of other Falcons players.
RYAN: Good things that players do within the community, taking care of theirselves financially, all those kind of things sometimes get lost.
BRETT ROMBERG, FORMER CENTER, ATLANTA FALCONS: If you have to second- guess yourself on what you're doing, if you're going to question yourself and step back and say, should I be doing this, or is my family going to reap the nastiness of me choosing this decision or is my name going to be tarnished.
LEMON: But Falcons U is about more than public perception. The brainchild of owner Arthur Blank, this year's summit also offered lessons on how to invest, which charities to give to, which endorsements to take.
BLANK: On the football field they have got a lot of good counseling for many years and they're getting great coaching. But in somebody's life transition, life skill areas they haven't and so we can ad value there.
LEMON (on camera): In three years I believe that's how long it takes an NFL player to lose the money that he made in the NFL. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This window, you know, especially on playing football, can be short sometimes. But you have to make that transition from college to the real world.
CHRIS REDMANN, QUARTERBACK, ATLANTA FALCONS: You know the others 29 in 37 months now, and I'm closer to the end of that time where you need to be thinking about that next step. It gave us the opportunity to meet a lot of people.
LEMON (voice-over): Given his position and his importance to the team, Matt Ryan knows he's under extra scrutiny.
RYAN: I wish stuff off the field was like throwing a football. I know how to throw a football, but I've had to learn and try and listen to a lot of different people.
LEMON: A reminder that in the NFL handling your business means more than winning football games.
Don Lemon, CNN, Flowery Branch, Georgia.
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FOREMAN: Sit tight. We promise you that we're going to tell you and we are, how you can finally get into Facebook and Twitter. You're not too old. You're not too tired. It's not too hard. In a moment, we'll show you how to navigate socially for the first time with a bit of you, your family and everyone you know.
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FOREMAN: You know at CNN we're always asking you to follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and we realize that not everyone was on the social media bandwagon. We don't want you to feel left out of the conversation. So with school coming back in, you want to keep up with the kids, we invited our tech wiz, Katie Linendoll, to give you an upgrade.
KATIE LINENDOLL, TECH EXPERT: You're going to see digital makeovers from two individuals. We have profiled a New York City actress and also the father of one of our fabulous CNN producers. Have a look.
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LINENDOLL: Facebook, for many people, means different things. People have to reconnect with friends from high school. People love it for connections and reconnections. But for you, which blows my mind, is you're an actress.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Yes.
LINENDOLL: This is a real networking opportunity.
It's as much or as little as you want. And I think that's what's cool about it. If you want to sign on once a week, stay in touch with family and friends, you have that option. I want to get you going and at least try it.
Would you be open to creating an account?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sure.
LINENDOLL: Let's do it.
Log on. First things first, you need to upload a photo. And I like to say upload your best photo, even if it doesn't look like you, because that's what everybody on Facebook does.
I also tell people when they're signing up for this, they're going to ask for profile information and they're going to ask for things like religious views and political views. Share as much or as little as you want.
If you don't want to put your year and your birthday, I don't think that's a bad thing.
Anything that you're putting out there, just assume you're putting it out to the world. If you don't want it on a billboard in Times Square, don't share it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That means no pictures.
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UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: There's a lot of stuff I can cut and paste from my Web site.
LINENDOLL: Perfect. Do it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Interested in --
LINENDOLL: I leave those blank.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Is that it?
LINENDOLL: I think that's a great start.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: OK, it's a great start.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Save changes?
LINENDOLL: Save changes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Save changes.
LINENDOLL: Now here is like the moment of truth. This is view my profile. This is big. OK.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Hey.
LINENDOLL: Really exciting.
Holy cow! You just had all these friend options pop up. Are these people that you know?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: More than half, but not all of them.
LINENDOLL: Is that cool? Is that interesting? Is that weird?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is interesting. I wasn't planning on spending the afternoon looking at this, but I see the temptation now.
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LINENDOLL: Now I want to show you how to add friends, because I think this is fun.
What I like to do is use this search bar at the top and I just type in somebody's name.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: OK. I'm going to --
LINENDOLL: I know. It's like overwhelming.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I add someone as a friend, do I need their permission to do that?
LINENDOLL: When you put that add friend button, they will get a request and they can turn it down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, OK.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Oh, look, it's my brother. I could just add my brother first, because obviously he comes up. I have to send a request first?
LINENDOLL: Exactly. And you can add a message with that request.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: OK.
LINENDOLL: I think he would know who you were.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I suppose, as I navigate through the friends of friends, I can find other people who --
LINENDOLL: Exactly.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- I may know.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Search for my band.
LINENDOLL: Ooh, are they on?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Yes.
LINENDOLL: So your band is on Facebook but you're not on Facebook.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Is that wrong?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What is a wall?
LINENDOLL: Your wall is like what people can write on it and your updates take place like, hey, she's uploading new photos, for example. How cool is that? So you get to see her photos.
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UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: So I clicked on them.
LINENDOLL: OK, so now it's add them.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: To add them I like them?
LINENDOLL: Exactly.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Oh.
LINENDOLL: Are you going to do it later?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I might. I might.
LINENDOLL: In the last 20 minutes, you've grown immensely.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Oh, well, thank you.
LINENDOLL: Well done.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Great. I hope I get a couple of jobs out of this.
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LINENDOLL: Fabulous. Another one sucked into the Facebook portal.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you very much. Are you going to friend me?
LINENDOLL: Absolutely.
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FOREMAN: Katie, I have some teenage daughters who do this like breathing, and yet the older you go up the food chain, the harder.
LINENDOLL: Yes.
FOREMAN: Where do you see the break-off where it becomes harder for adults to do it if they haven't done it before? What age?
LINENDOLL: Well, I actually I think it's really interesting to know that the largest growing number of Facebook users is 50-plus and in social networking as well. And actually 65-plus has seen 100 percent growth in the last year. So really remarkable. But I have to tell you Tom, it was interesting in working with James as an older user. He has seen people he hasn't seen for decades. And he's going on, having a more calculated, methodical approach. I think the older users ask a lot more questions as opposed to a younger user who dives right in and says we're going to figure it out as we go.
FOREMAN: And with that we'll see you tomorrow night or perhaps on Facebook. I'm Tom Foreman here at the CNN
