Backpage.com Shut Down By Federal Government

[Goldie]

It appears Backpage.com, the popular classified ads website that’s best known for selling sex & prostitution, was seized and shut down by the government on Friday. If you try and go to the site, you’ll be welcomed with a statement from the FBI instead, which reads… "Backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division.”

The notice did not detail the reason for the seizure but noted that Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, as well as the offices of the Texas attorney general and California attorney general, were involved.

This Backpage seizure comes just two weeks after Craigslist eliminated their personal ads following Congress' passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which repealed a previous law that provided "legal protection to websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution and websites that facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale of unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking victims.”

All in all, it’s a good thing that sex trafficking won’t be so easily accessible, but sorry for anyone out of town trying to order some late night fun to their hotel room.

 

[DOS_patos]

its about to be alot of hungry hoes.

but they needed this shut down..

i heard stories of young chicks on there lying about their age.

 

[Lord Nemesis]

If it helps curtail child exploitation in anyway then I'm for it.


Bitches been selling pussy openly on Tumblr anyway so they'll be aight

 

[GOAT]

Im sorry for your loss Goldie

 

[SeaSnake]

It appears Backpage.com, the popular classified ads website that’s best known for selling sex & prostitution, was seized and shut down by the government on Friday. If you try and go to the site, you’ll be welcomed with a statement from the FBI instead, which reads… "Backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division.”

The notice did not detail the reason for the seizure but noted that Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, as well as the offices of the Texas attorney general and California attorney general, were involved.

This Backpage seizure comes just two weeks after Craigslist eliminated their personal ads following Congress' passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which repealed a previous law that provided "legal protection to websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution and websites that facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale of unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking victims.”

All in all, it’s a good thing that sex trafficking won’t be so easily accessible, but sorry for anyone out of town trying to order some late night fun to their hotel room.

My thing is the dudes running the site had to know it was gonna get shut down. It had no regulation

 

[deadeye]

 

[Banginscrew901]

So craigslist bout to be popping again

 

[Juttythe4th]

there was nothing but fake chinese models for my city anywayz








so my friends said

 

[Dwayne]

So craigslist bout to be popping again

That shit was shut down first

 

[Soul_Rattler]

 

[deadeye]

So craigslist bout to be popping again

Nah, according to the O/P they shut down the personal ads on Craiglist 2 weeks ago:



This Backpage seizure comes just two weeks after Craigslist eliminated their personal ads following Congress' passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which repealed a previous law that provided "legal protection to websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution and websites that facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale of unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking victims.”

 

[OriginalMan!]

So the government are the only customers now is that how it works? Lol

 

[TheNightKing]

I used to look at the Missed Connections on Craigslist to see if anybody ever mentioned me as a missed connection.


They didn't.

 

[Soul_Rattler]

The unfortunate part about this is that it does nothing to address the problems it's supposedly meant to solve.

This is a result of southern Christian conservativism, which has always confronted every policy issue with a "live your life the way I want you to" sentiment.

Online prostitution isn't a booming avenue for its convenience. It's because it provides a level of safety and analysis that you won't find on a street corner. If they really cared about child trafficking, violence, and slavery, they'd accept prostitution as a legal profession that, like every other industry, should be supervised and held to a standard of lawful measures.

It's the Batman problem of fighting a battle you'll never win because you see yourself as the hero no one asked for.

 

[deadeye]

Kind of a paradox.


If they left the sites up, it would give them a way to capture some of these traffickers and rescue some of the girls.


Yet, at the same time, leaving those sites up knowing full well what they're advertising sends the wrong message as well.