backpage.com is done...

[98Z5V]

Wow. Sites SEIZED.  It appears that backpage.com was quite alright with sex trades, and they're done now.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-backpage-justice/sex-ads-website-backpage-shut-down-by-u-s-authorities-idUSKCN1HD2QP

[blue109]

Id be willing to bet it had as much to do with gun sales as it did with trafficking and prostitution.  Craigslist had the same crap going on. They didnt even try to hide it. There was an "adult escort" sub-classified. The difference was craigslist was strict about gun sales.  Clist removed all its personals stuff at the same time backpage did but nobody is kicking down their door. 

 

If im not mistaken, all this started because a law recently passed saying the site owners can be held responsible for people misusing their site for illegal purposes (prostitution/trafficking) all these sites closed their personals sections soon as it was passed. Im not understanding how the BP owners are being charged retroactively? Am I missing something?

[98Z5V]

What I'm reading is that is was all broken down for the underaged shiit, on backpage. they knew about the issues with underaged shiit, and looked the other way... 

They need to go down, if that's the real issue.  Gun-porn wasn't the issue. Pimping whatever-minimum-age and younger was.

[blue109]

Im sure they are lowlifes and i wont shed any tears over it....BP was a cesspool. Anybody remotely connected to trafficking or pedo stuff needs immediate guillotining.  Im just suspicious of everything lately.  Mccain and his wife were the driving force behind the BP seizure from what im reading and I trust that scumbag as far as I can throw his old ass. he probably tried to strongarm them for a cut of the operation and when it didnt happen they called in the feds. 

 

[shepp]

20 hours ago, blue109 said:

Im sure they are lowlifes and i wont shed any tears over it....BP was a cesspool. Anybody remotely connected to trafficking or pedo stuff needs immediate guillotining.  Im just suspicious of everything lately.  Mccain and his wife were the driving force behind the BP seizure from what im reading and I trust that scumbag as far as I can throw his old ass. he probably tried to strongarm them for a cut of the operation and when it didnt happen they called in the feds. 

 

He probably knew about it cuz he bought little boys on there