Goverment Shuts down BP Adult Section
The power that be strike again, BP adult section has been shut down: http://losangeles.backpage.com/
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It's ovah
Backpage bows down to pressure and shuts down adult sections. However, massage section and dating section still open
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Can't we just have our fun? WTF? We aren't hurting anyone. I thought this new govmint was about letting people alone. Guess not.
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BP shut down
The ads have moved to dating link: Women looking for Men
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Press Release:
Backpage.com Removes Adult Content Due to Unconstitutional Government Censorship....Vows to Fight First Amendment Battles Washington, D.C. - As the direct result of unconstitutional government censorship, Backpage.com has removed its Adult content section from the highly popular classified website, effective immediately. For years, the legal system protecting freedom of speech prevailed, but new government tactics, including pressuring credit card companies to cease doing business with Backpage, have left the company with no other choice but to remove the content in the United States. As federal appeals court Judge Richard Posner has described, the goal is either to “suffocate” Backpage out of existence or use the awesome powers of the government to force Backpage to follow in the footsteps of Craigslist and abandon its Adult advertising section. Judge Posner described such tactics as “a formula for permitting unauthorized, unregulated, foolproof, lawless government coercion.” “It's a sad day for America's children victimized by prostitution,” said Dr. Lois Lee, Founder and President, Children of the Night, a leading national hotline and shelter program for victims of sex trafficking based in Los Angeles. “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.” She added, “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. It not only made law enforcement's job easier, it made them much more effective at rescuing kids and convicting pimps.” Backpage.com was created thirteen years ago by Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey, through their newspaper company, New Times Media, to compete with Craigslist, the nation’s largest online classified ad platform. Larkin and Lacey were pioneers in independent journalism, establishing Village Voice Media in 1970 to provide alternative news coverage of the Vietnam war and later served as editor and publisher of twenty weekly newspapers. As The Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have observed, the Senate subcommittee has engaged in an “invasive, burdensome inquiry into Backpage.com’s editorial practices [that] creates an intense chilling effect, not only for Backpage but for any website operator seeking to define their own editorial viewpoint and moderation procedures for the third-party content they host.” This will not end the fight for online freedom of speech. Backpage.com will continue to pursue its efforts in court to vindicate its First Amendment rights and those of other online platforms for third party expression. http://www.backpage.com/classifieds/Media |
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under Dating - Women Seeking Men or Transgender and also under Services - Massage use keyword to narrow your search |
Backpage shuts down adult section, citing government pressure and unlawful censorship campaign
LA Times http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...109-story.html Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.5c4b4b1c1736 |
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the removal of the Backpage adult section ads coincides with January as Human Trafficking Prevention Month promoted as the Blue Campaign by the Department of Homeland Security. January 11 is Wear Blue Day.
DHS https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign?ut...source=twitter https://www.dhs.gov/blog/2017/01/03/...nth-join-fight January is the month that state and local LEO with the help of the Feds will be conducting undercover reverse stings ops throughout the country Howard County Maryland Police Department Investigators posted this message to Backpage "LOOKING FOR A GIRL? Howard County Police are looking for you. HCPD has zero tolerance for Prostitution and Human Trafficking. If you commit these crimes, you WILL be arrested, prosecuted and your personal information released to the media." |
BP sucked but this is not a good trend. Weaker sites will crumble. Not even that shitty archive site is up anymore - nobody thought to make an archive of the archive!
I think ultimately the owners will trip up their defense with where they got greedy, but the adult section will return soon enough as it is ultimately a case of free speech. |
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