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Feds seize classified ad site Backpage.com over sex trafficking ads
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I'm not surprised that Backpage went completely down now.
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It'll go straight to the Dark Web.
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This is scary. I wonder if white supremacist/nutjob Jeff Sessions had anything to do with this.
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^ This nonsense is a product of extremists on both sides of the political aisle, from nutjobs like Jeff Sessions on the right to the purported Feminists and Nanny State types on the left. Ca and TX, two states on opposite ends of the political spectrum, have been among those parties after BP the longest. SESTA passed in the Senate 97-2, no doubt with many moderates in the middle voting yes in order to avoid being labelled pro-prostitution and pissing off portions of their respective constituencies.
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I've been following this closely ( on Twitter mostly).
I'm now seeing escorts who are being offered money to name names of political clients saying they're considering it.
The price being offered is only $24,000. Really hope they hold out for at least a hundred thousand.
We shall see.
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Raziel
It'll go straight to the Dark Web.
Read the indictment, they're DONE!
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This is going to piss off the local police to no end. I know many jurisdictions used to use backpage as an easy way to sting johns. They would simply put up a fake backpage ad, then set up in a hotel room and wait for the suckers to come to them.
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I agree that Backpage itself is done. However, I'm sure online escort advertising will continue on the dark web or on sites based off shore in sex worker friendly countries like Australia or Germany.
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Honestly when I look at the things they are charged with, it does not look like the people at backpage were acting in good faith.
While we all know the infinitely vast majority of ads were not underage or trafficked, they were not doing the basic things to stop that, and in some ways, the opposite.
I dunno why one would have a server based in this country at all.
Looks to me like an opportunity for a sex worker owned business
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daggx
This is going to piss off the local police to no end. I know many jurisdictions used to use backpage as an easy way to sting johns. They would simply put up a fake backpage ad, then set up in a hotel room and wait for the suckers to come to them.
Kind of like that show To Catch A Predator.
I wonder how they will operate stings now?
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oldster
I dunno why one would have a server based in this country at all.
Looks to me like an opportunity for a sex worker owned business
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daggx
However, I'm sure online escort advertising will continue on the dark web or on sites based off shore in sex worker friendly countries like Australia or Germany.
What about the Cloud Act?
https://www.eff.org/id/deeplinks/201...on-race-bottom
The whole premise is
"In addition, U.S. law enforcement agencies (from local police to federal agents) can now compel U.S. and foreign technology[1] companies to disclose communications data of U.S. and foreign users that is stored overseas, regardless of the data’s physical location, potentially bypassing the countries’ privacy and data protection laws"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/0...oud-act-passes
"Make no mistake—you spoke up. You emailed your representatives. You told them to protect privacy and to reject the CLOUD Act, including any efforts to attach it to must-pass spending bills. You did your part. It is Congressional leadership—negotiating behind closed doors—who failed.
Because of this failure, U.S. and foreign police will have new mechanisms to seize data across the globe. Because of this failure, your private emails, your online chats, your Facebook, Google, Flickr photos, your Snapchat videos, your private lives online, your moments shared digitally between only those you trust, will be open to foreign law enforcement without a warrant and with few restrictions on using and sharing your information. Because of this failure, U.S. laws will be bypassed on U.S. soil."
As we wrote before, the CLOUD Act is a far-reaching, privacy-upending piece of legislation that will:
- Enable foreign police to collect and wiretap people's communications from U.S. companies, without obtaining a U.S. warrant.
- Allow foreign nations to demand personal data stored in the United States, without prior review by a judge.
- Allow the U.S. president to enter "executive agreements" that empower police in foreign nations that have weaker privacy laws than the United States to seize data in the United States while ignoring U.S. privacy laws.
- Allow foreign police to collect someone's data without notifying them about it.
- Empower U.S. police to grab any data, regardless if it's a U.S. person's or not, no matter where it is stored.
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daggx
I agree that Backpage itself is done. However, I'm sure online escort advertising will continue on the dark web or on sites based off shore in sex worker friendly countries like Australia or Germany.
http://www.newsweek.com/people-are-g...hutdown-876486
Other sites that recently shut down include the subreddit r/hooker, Eccie, MyProviderGuide, and certain advertisement sections of Craigslist and the fetish profile website Fetlife. But there are alternatives to Backpage. Sex workers are considering using offshore ad websites, personal offshore websites, encrypted emails, relying on their regular clients, sharing lists of safe clients privately with the community, or even doing street work, Mandie says. The dark web is also an option, and while Mandie says that sex workers could use it, clients probably won’t want to figure out something so complicated.
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Escorts.biz was shut down today too. Is there another thread for this? If there is I can't find it.
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Backpage was a setup largely for sketchy girls for thefts, scams, etc. Of course some beginning providers were able to use it as a springboard to improve their business. Most of the ads I've seen were very poorly done in any case.
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I still can't believe these websites are getting shutdown. I have been around since the beginning of the internet in the 90s and other then Silk Road and Napster this is the first time I have seen (that I know about ) the government shut down and criminalize adult related websites.
And this is all while absolutely toxic and hatefilled websites that breed home grown terrorists like 4Chan are allowed to stay up. The latest slaughter in Canada where 10 people were killed was partly due to 4Chan and affiliate websites.
There is a whole underground group of young males who feel they aren't getting the attention from women they deserve and so they congregate online and spew nothing but pure hate and vitriol towards women, minorities, and guys who are successful with women and pump each other up to the point where one of these individuals decides to be a "hero" and commits and public killing in some form or fashion.
That being said, this whole push to criminalize online prostitution has only driven the trade back underground where it will be harder to catch actual pimps and anyone underage, and it has not only taken the independence away from sex workers but it has made them more vulnerable.
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Luckyguy09
I still can't believe these websites are getting shutdown. I have been around since the beginning of the internet in the 90s and other then Silk Road and Napster this is the first time I have seen (that I know about ) the government shut down and criminalize adult related websites.
And this is all while absolutely toxic and hatefilled websites that breed home grown terrorists like 4Chan are allowed to stay up. The latest slaughter in Canada where 10 people were killed was partly due to 4Chan and affiliate websites.
There is a whole underground group of young males who feel they aren't getting the attention from women they deserve and so they congregate online and spew nothing but pure hate and vitriol towards women, minorities, and guys who are successful with women and pump each other up to the point where one of these individuals decides to be a "hero" and commits and public killing in some form or fashion.
That being said, this whole push to criminalize online prostitution has only driven the trade back underground where it will be harder to catch actual pimps and anyone underage, and it has not only taken the independence away from sex workers but it has made them more vulnerable.
Well said.
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Trump can fuck a porn star, but we regular people can't find service providers. Elitism.
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miss.a.p1600
Kind of like that show To Catch A Predator.
I wonder how they will operate stings now?
I know. I wonder that too. I live near two hotels that are popular, if you know what I mean, and I've noticed obvious LE cars parking in the parking lots there and sitting there for a while. I think that they were acting more as a deterrent than actually watching any particular room. Normally if they were going to do a sting they'd have uncovers. I do have an insider at an upscale hotel and he told me that LE has asked all the employees there(especially housekeeping) to watch guests and look for any signs of sex trafficking or prostitution and report it to them if they see anything suspicious.
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I wonder if this violates the 10th Amendment, since prostitution is a state crime and not a federal crime, and is legal in at least one state.
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threlayer
Trump can fuck a porn star, but we regular people can't find service providers. Elitism.
Pretty much......
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IMO the real solution to stop human trafficking is is to make paid sex legal between consensual adults of legal age. No one wants to see someone trafficked or forced against their will. The solution is truly simple.
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Old thread, can't find any updates - After the mistrial was declared, a new trial date was set for 2/22/2022. But that date has come and gone.