Backpage provided the most effective way of both rescuing victims and arresting pedos. Taking the site down and charging the founders for actions of their users is just feel-good bullshit that doesn't help anybody. It's effectively society saying "i don't want to see this" and turning their head away and celebrating the arrest of web developers. The children will still get sold. Now you won't be able to see it or do anything to help. But, high-five! we won!
SESTA/FOSTA was a disaster for getting rid of section 230 which already had teeth to take down people who knowingly aided sex traffickers. Now anybody can be charged for the illegal actions of their users whether they know it's happening or not.
I add that now the johns will have to prowl the streets and massage parlors thus making them exposable to stings. Pimps will no longer sit in their car with a 1000$ phone awaiting them. They will be forced into the streets and bars as well.
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banusaur ago
Backpage provided the most effective way of both rescuing victims and arresting pedos. Taking the site down and charging the founders for actions of their users is just feel-good bullshit that doesn't help anybody. It's effectively society saying "i don't want to see this" and turning their head away and celebrating the arrest of web developers. The children will still get sold. Now you won't be able to see it or do anything to help. But, high-five! we won!
SESTA/FOSTA was a disaster for getting rid of section 230 which already had teeth to take down people who knowingly aided sex traffickers. Now anybody can be charged for the illegal actions of their users whether they know it's happening or not.
sore_ass_losers ago
No, Backpage had an automatic filter to kick out terms that implied the girl was underage, before the moderators even looked at the ad.
This is complicity. They actively enabled child prostitution.
See my comment https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2498285/12478797
or my source https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/04/15/emails-reveal-how-backpage-edited-sex-ads-will-it-be-its-undoing/100436762/
These fuckers aren't just 'web developers'.
YogSoggoth ago
I add that now the johns will have to prowl the streets and massage parlors thus making them exposable to stings. Pimps will no longer sit in their car with a 1000$ phone awaiting them. They will be forced into the streets and bars as well.