Professional networking site LinkedIn has decided to outlaw sex workers from using the platform for promoting escort services or prostitution.

Professional networking site LinkedIn has decided to outlaw sex workers from using the platform for promoting escort services or prostitution.

Rolling out a number of changes to its privacy policy and user agreement, LinkedIn informed about the ban on prostitutes to its more than 200 million members through a notice on its site.

According to LinkedIn, thou shall not, "Upload, post, email, InMail, transmit or otherwise make available or initiate any content that:Even if it is legal where you are located, create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution."

Theban is not completely new. LinkedIn had forbade advertising "unlawful" services. But, prostitution is legal in many countries

LinkedIn's head of communications inAustralia Tara Commerford said that their user agreement has always been against the promotion of world's oldest profession of escort or prostitution services, adding that the revised privacy policy of the site has made it even clearer and simpler to read.

But, the news hasn't obviously gone well with the folks at Sheri's Ranch, a brothel in Nevada

A blog post on the site notes:

"By not allowing legal prostitutes to use LinkedIn, the social network and its leaders are broadcasting their feelings about social progress:LinkedIn does not believe that legal prostitution should be legal and doesn't recognize it as a legitimate profession even though it legally is.

Is this really LinkedIn's call to make? Should LinkedIn, a social network, decide which professions are legitimate and which are not? Of course, it's within the social network's rights to remove any content that it deems unsavory, but for LinkedIn to use its influence to intentionally subvert a political agenda is unfair and socially dangerous. Deciding whether or not prostitution is a legal profession in a particular country or state is the responsibility of politicians and their constituents, not the responsibility of LinkedIn."

Do you think LinkedIn is right in banning prostitutes and escorts from its site?