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The adult section of backpage has been shutdown... at least for now.
Yikes.
It's the same everywhere.
Everything has been "censored".
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Press Release: Backpage.com Removes Adult Content Due to Unconstitutional Government Censorship....Vows to Fight First Amendment Battles
January 9, 2017
Washington, D.C. - As the direct result of unconstitutional government censorship, Backpage.com has removed its Adult content section from the highly popular classified website, effective immediately. For years, the legal system protecting freedom of speech prevailed, but new government tactics, including pressuring credit card companies to cease doing business with Backpage, have left the company with no other choice but to remove the content in the United States.
As federal appeals court Judge Richard Posner has described, the goal is either to “suffocate” Backpage out of existence or use the awesome powers of the government to force Backpage to follow in the footsteps of Craigslist and abandon its Adult advertising section. Judge Posner described such tactics as “a formula for permitting unauthorized, unregulated, foolproof, lawless government coercion.”
“It's a sad day for America's children victimized by prostitution,” said Dr. Lois Lee, Founder and President, Children of the Night, a leading national hotline and shelter program for victims of sex trafficking based in Los Angeles. “Backpage.com was a critical investigative tool depended on by America's vice detectives and agents in the field to locate and recover missing children and to arrest and successfully prosecute the pimps who prostitute children.” She added, “The ability to search for and track potentially exploited children on a website and have the website bend over backwards to help and cooperate with police the way Backpage did was totally unique. It not only made law enforcement's job easier, it made them much more effective at rescuing kids and convicting pimps.”
Backpage.com was created thirteen years ago by Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey, through their newspaper company, New Times Media, to compete with Craigslist, the nation’s largest online classified ad platform. Larkin and Lacey were pioneers in independent journalism, establishing Village Voice Media in 1970 to provide alternative news coverage of the Vietnam war and later served as editor and publisher of twenty weekly newspapers.
As The Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have observed, the Senate subcommittee has engaged in an “invasive, burdensome inquiry into Backpage.com’s editorial practices [that] creates an intense chilling effect, not only for Backpage but for any website operator seeking to define their own editorial viewpoint and moderation procedures for the third-party content they host.”
This will not end the fight for online freedom of speech. Backpage.com will continue to pursue its efforts in court to vindicate its First Amendment rights and those of other online platforms for third party expression.
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What the...?!?
I remember someone posting about trying to shut down back page adult section like they did Craigslist.
I wonder what this censor means?
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They're pretty much gone. Gone like craigslist and ain't coming back. Ouch.
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WOW - that's pretty insane.
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Damn! Lots of lonely horny guys tonight. I wonder where everyone will default to. Eros?
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miss.a.p1600
Damn! Lots of lonely horny guys tonight. I wonder where everyone will default to. Eros?
Not sure if that's where they're going but that's where I'm going, Eros and P411 until backpage sorts itself out. I doubt they're making a comeback though.
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Maybe it'll make Eros and Cityvibe worth the fees.
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I just logged in to backpage to repost my ads and the Entire adult section has been labled censored permanently by the government. This is gonna suck bad. I use lots of sites to promote but backpage always gets the most traffic, and it was so cheap to post an ad. Ive literally made thousands on backpage. Im not ready for my money train to stop! This SUCKS
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KinkyNicki
I just logged in to backpage to repost my ads and the Entire adult section has been labled censored permanently by the government. This is gonna suck bad. I use lots of sites to promote but backpage always gets the most traffic, and it was so cheap to post an ad. Ive literally made thousands on backpage. Im not ready for my money train to stop! This SUCKS
That's an understatement. it's my primary source of advertising. Totally fucked up.
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“It's a sad day for America's children victimized by prostitution,” said Dr. Lois Lee, Founder and President, Children of the Night, a leading national hotline and shelter program for victims of sex trafficking based in Los Angeles. “Backpage.com was a critical investigative tool depended on by America's vice detectives and agents in the field to locate and recover missing children and to arrest and successfully prosecute the pimps who prostitute children.” She added, “The ability to search for and track potentially exploited children on a website and have the website bend over backwards to help and cooperate with police the way Backpage did was totally unique. It not only made law enforcement's job easier, it made them much more effective at rescuing kids and convicting pimps.”
This is a very different perspective because I never thought about BP in this way. I know that they're heavily monitored but I never really thought about how having them up and running can be a win win for all parties. Like let people of age conduct business while LE sniffs out the sex traffickers.
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Damn, I have to spend money advertising my phone sex ads :(
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I literally just sent credits in arrrughhh...I get great traffic off BP have been for years
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Their official statement:
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There's also a thread about this in Other Work. :)
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Great use of government resources, knuckleheads. I hope there are no more hungry children.
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They've all moved to W4M. Thankfully, I have an exhaustive list I've gathered with services pricing and pictures. Maybe I'll sell it.
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But the same guys who went to the escort section arent going to the w4m section.. Ive been posting in the w4m section for the past couple hours & nada. Its 12am in atlanta, this is supposed to be my peak hour and my phone is completely dead right now =( not to mention that the w4m ads are way cheaper so theres gonna be an influx of girls trying to keep their ads at the top....i think escorting on backpage might be officially dead =( Just like Craigslist a few years back
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& BOTH of my w4m ads were flagged after i paid for them ughhhhhh
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Re: The adult section of backpage has been shutdown... at least for now.
It looks like Backpage shut their own section down themselves, hopefully they are just looking to get some attention before opening back up?
That being said, are there any other options like the Backpage "adult jobs" section? Not escorting classifieds but hiring etc?
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It's nice, in Orange County, CA, all the quality independents have moved to the dating W4M page and all the super fake massage parlor adds are gone.
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Boston W4M is flooded with sponsored escort ads ... pretty sure they'll have a full team pulling ads soon, but so far u can still purchase upgrades etc.
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Someone needs to host a site outside USA until people get a clue.
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MMW
It looks like Backpage shut their own section down themselves, hopefully they are just looking to get some attention before opening back up?
That being said, are there any other options like the Backpage "adult jobs" section? Not escorting classifieds but hiring etc?
sexyjobs.com but if you're a cammodel you should beware of all the Icamz Internetm0deling recruiters on there. Pond scum
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Bahuba
Someone needs to host a site outside USA until people get a clue.
www.adultwork.com Its in the UK and its mostly known for escorts. This could be an opportunity for them.