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By shutting down Backpage, the government has made America less safe.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:15 am
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:15 am
Law Enforcement: the easiest way to track down hookers and illegal sex workers was thru this site.
Johns: the uneducated will go back to picking up streetwalkers. Most people will find a new site.
Workers: back to street walking or will quickly find a new site. Less access to law enforcement will make it easier to traffic women.
Public Health: Non-profits have been very successful using backpage to reach people trying to get out of the life
Another useless regulation in the name of molarity and censorship.
Johns: the uneducated will go back to picking up streetwalkers. Most people will find a new site.
Workers: back to street walking or will quickly find a new site. Less access to law enforcement will make it easier to traffic women.
Public Health: Non-profits have been very successful using backpage to reach people trying to get out of the life
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Thank you backpage.com for helping us reach the young men, women and transgenders who want to escape prostitution. This past February 2013 our website received nearly 30,000 hits and 52,552 pages were viewed as compared to February 2012 where 7000 hits resulted in 21,916. We have rescued more children from pimps, received tips on sex trafficking organizations but more surprising than anything is the number of adults who want to change their lives - because they have aged out of prostitution. We are helping them with our online GED program, resume preparation, financial aid to advance their education and much, much more. Hats off to backpage.com!
Another useless regulation in the name of molarity and censorship.
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Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:16 am to Dire Wolf
So another site will be up & running soon??
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:18 am to Dire Wolf
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Shutting down Backpage won't save even one child, though, or one adult, or anybody. Backpage.com is a neutral publishing platform, albeit one that's become popular among sex workers ranging from strippers and erotic masseuses to people who offer sex for a fee. Without its adult section, sex workers of all ages will have to find some other way to advertise—perhaps simply by moving to a more discreet section of the site, as was done on Craigslist (anyone who thinks ridding Craigslist of its adult-services section actually thwarted commercial-sex advertising there should check out the site's "Casual Encounters" section now); perhaps by advertising elsewhere online (the internet is a vast place); or perhaps by returning to older client-gathering methods, like word-of-mouth or walking the streets. But what doesn't happen in all but the most fervent prohibitionist imaginations is that people whose livelihoods depend on prostitution or more legal forms of erotic work simply stop doing said work because one website won't take their ads anymore.
And authorities know this. In the criminal complaint against Ferrer, Larkin, and Lacey in California, officials noted that many of the women they spoke with who were now advertising services on Backpage had previously advertised on Cragislist's adult section, on MyRedbook.com (shut down by the feds in 2014), and on other websites and escorting forums which had since been banned. The only way officials are going to stop online ads for prostitution is by ramping up their already intensive efforts hundreds-fold and going after any and all websites that allow user-generated content. I'm beginning to think they might try.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:19 am to Dire Wolf
Saying America is less safe is a stretch, but they aren't going to achieve whatever it is they think they're going to achieve. Brehs have been paying for sex since the dawn of man (one way or another). I imagine a substitute will be up and running in a matter of hours or days, if it hasn't already happened. I mean Eros is still around at the very least.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:20 am to Dire Wolf
Somebody's pissed their "date" got canceled tonight.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:24 am to Dire Wolf
what about Backdoor?
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:28 am to Wtodd
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So another site will be up & running soon??
There's already a much better site for finding whores.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:46 am to Dire Wolf
Did they shut it down?
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:49 am to BamaScoop
Only the adult section
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:55 am to Dire Wolf
When will people learn that more freedom usually leads to less of the action that you would try to regulate against
Just like legalizing weed eliminates the need for shady dealers, gangs, and cartels making it much safer for consumers and making neighborhoods safer
Just like legalizing weed eliminates the need for shady dealers, gangs, and cartels making it much safer for consumers and making neighborhoods safer
Posted on 1/10/17 at 12:19 pm to SlowFlowPro
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SlowFlowPro
From your link
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Sadly, these hammer-handed attempts actually hurt most the people they claim to help: young people forced or coerced into prostitution. Backpage has helped law-enforcement in hundreds of investigations into missing minors and potential sex-trafficking victims by turning over their contact and financial info (or that of those who posted their ads) to authorities when such ads are discovered, as well as flagging ads that contain images of suspiciously young individuals. And because Backpage operates across the country, authorities searching for victim or perpetrators on the move could sometimes trace their movements via Backpage ads.
"It's a sad day for America's children victimized by prostitution," Lois Lee, founder and president of sex-trafficking victim organizaiton Children of the Night, said Monday. "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. 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."
"I have worked in this field my entire adult life," Lee added. "Child prostitution existed long before Backpage or the Internet. Backpage is not the cause or even a cause. Backpage was an opportunity to better attack the problem."
Posted on 1/10/17 at 12:50 pm to Dire Wolf
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Another useless regulation in the name of molarity and censorship.
What does molarity have to do with censorship? I'm honestly asking. Molarity refers to a concentration in a solution. I don't know if it has a meaning outside chemistry.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 1:48 pm to crazy4lsu
Does molarity mean you got big choppers?
Posted on 1/10/17 at 1:52 pm to Dire Wolf
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Another useless regulation in the name of molarity and censorship.
I wish these regulators could concentrate on things that matter.
Posted on 1/10/17 at 1:58 pm to Dire Wolf
Grab it by the pussy and tax it.
But seriously this ever gets legalized I wanna be a fly on the wall of the actuaries guiding insurancepricing for sex workers.
But seriously this ever gets legalized I wanna be a fly on the wall of the actuaries guiding insurancepricing for sex workers.
This post was edited on 1/10/17 at 2:00 pm
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