Backpage gets deep dicked by the Feds.

[Joe Molotov]

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1HD2QP

Welp, there goes my plans for the weekend.

[Boogie]

We're always watching..... 

[seagrams hotsauce]

distinguished mentally-challenged. Fuck this puritanical bullshit

[nudemacusers]

There’s always rubmaps 👏🏻👐🏻💦

[mormapope]

Im looking at FetLife rite now and this seems to be a pretty good way to get laid.

Lotta freaks on here 

[Madrun Badrun]

FetLife girls got standards

[mormapope]

FetLife girls got standards

https://fetlife.com/events/647482

  Think Texas Bukkake meets GGG. Weekend long Pussy Mouth and Anal Gangbang.
Condoms optional.
Pussy and Ass will be open wide for your pleasure. DP, double pussy, double anal, ATM.
Fisting, throat fucking, gaging, golden showers and piss drinking.
Non stop taking cream pies and facials until I'm drenched in cum, piss and spit.
Save up your cum for me before the event and come with full balls to cover me in your hot spunk.
a couple of female fluffers will be on hand or in mouth
Large loft space has showers and kitchen so stay awhile and fuck me a few times. or come back the next day to unload on me again.
I will be taking on any and all men. No one will be turned away. xoxo     

You just need to get to New York.....

The no condom thing is terrifying TBH

[Madrun Badrun]

I have standards

[thisismyusername]

craigslist was taken down not too long ago as well.

Last I checked, that's up?

Edit: They took the Personal pages down due to the law, that's it.

[thisismyusername]

craigslist was taken down not too long ago as well.

Last I checked, that's up?

Edit: They took the Personal pages down due to the law, that's it.

We talking hos, TIMU.

Yes. I know. Unless they were FBI Seized in the meanwhile between today and like 10 years ago when I checked Craigslist for said THOTs daily, the only thing they've changed is shutting down the obvious sex-ad-page.

[Rahxephon91]

Well there goes my chance at any sexy time.

[team filler]

 

[CatsCatsCats]

Naw, timu ALL the personals are gone on Craigslist, it’s pretty well bullshit

[El Babua]

Big government making things worse once again.

[TVC15]

I guess we can turn this into the new Backpages.

Shosta, I plan on taking a week off before my new gig starts. How about I fly down to Vegas and wreck your ass for a week? I’ll give you 400 bucks a night. 600 if you let me leave marks.

[nudemacusers]

I guess we can turn this into the new Backpages.

Shosta, I plan on taking a week off before my new gig starts. How about I fly down to Vegas and wreck your ass for a week? I’ll give you 400 roses a night. 600 if you let me leave marks.

Fixed. Do it right or don’t do it at all

[agrajag]

 

Where will Cindi advertise now?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I have a friend who is a stripper who is 100% against this because it doesn't actually do anything to fight sex trafficking and instead makes it a lot tougher for hookers to do business, which puts them at risk of going to pimps to get business that way.  Most of the girls on backpage were just girls working independently because they didn't need a pimp to post an ad and there were all kinds of screening services the girls can use to make sure that they avoid going to a dangerous john and there were a lot of sites that had reviews so the johns could avoid hookers who would rob you or isn't what they advertised as.  Now all of that is gone so yeah, it makes things more dangerous for everyone.

For the record, I never used backpage.  I always thought that site was shady and if I ever got a hooker, they were the type to not use backpage anyway.  Looks like Instagram is the new backpage.  Just go to their "booking" e-mail and see if she will fit you in between flights to and from Dubai.

[Phoenix Dark]

Actually pimps had a heavy presence on Backpage, and used to set up ads for many girls. There certainly were independent women on BP but a large portion were working for dudes.

The girls who aren't tech savvy will end up turning to pimps even more now. I'd expect a lot of independent girls to struggle now; sure they have their regulars' cell numbers saved, but they're prob gonna fuck up trying to contact those dudes too much, come off desperate, get blocked, etc. Not being able to juggle those things will lead to many turning to pimps, who will handle that shit for them.

The savvier girls will end up on tumblr/twitter, and some will end up on Seeking Arrangement. Most will probably try to migrate to dating apps.

[benjipwns]

thanks obama and social studies warriors

[TVC15]

thanks obama and social studies warriors

Any chance this law could be taken down on First Amendmenty grounds? Without knowing too much about it, it seems like this might cross some lines.

[benjipwns]

From Joe's link:

The Supreme Court in January 2017 refused to consider reviving a lawsuit against Backpage that was filed by three young women, who accused it of facilitating their forced prostitution.

In 2016, Texas and California authorities raided the company's Dallas headquarters and arrested chief executive Carl Ferrer and other former company executives on pimping-related charges. The judge in the case ruled the website was protected by the First Amendment, and it was not liable for the speech of third parties.

It's not the craziest possibility! Most of the court is still the one (or at least not worse) that voted 8-1 to initially protect "crush videos" after all. (Alito was the one who found a child pornography exemption to the Constitution.)

[benjipwns]

Also, this:


is from a book in support of the Mann Act (aka White-Slave Traffic Act) about the dangers of human trafficking (the same reason given for this new legislation*) so now we're all safe from this fate:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

*

"Today, Backpage was shutdown. It's a huge step. Now no child will be sold for sex through this website," tweeted Senator Heidi Heitkamp.

Heitkamp helped draft legislation passed by the Senate last month that makes it easier for state prosecutors and sex-trafficking victims to sue social media networks, advertisers and others that fail to keep sex trafficking and exploitative materials off their platforms..

President Donald Trump will sign the bill into law next week, said Heitkamp. The legislation, featured prominently in the popular Netflix documentary "I am Jane Doe," amends the Communications Decency Act, which has shielded website operators from state criminal charges or civil liability if they facilitate sex ads or prostitution.

"Shutting down the largest online U.S. marketplace for sex trafficking will dramatically reduce the profitability of forcing people into the commercial sex trade, at least in the short term," said Bradley Myles, chief executive of Polaris, an international anti-slavery group that runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline.

There would be "a dramatic shift in the marketplace starting tonight," he added.

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[TVC15]

Also, this:
(Image removed from quote.)

is from a book in support of the Mann Act (aka White-Slave Traffic Act) about the dangers of human trafficking (the same reason given for this new legislation*) so now we're all safe from this fate:

(Image removed from quote.)

spoiler (click to show/hide)

*

"Today, Backpage was shutdown. It's a huge step. Now no child will be sold for sex through this website," tweeted Senator Heidi Heitkamp.

Heitkamp helped draft legislation passed by the Senate last month that makes it easier for state prosecutors and sex-trafficking victims to sue social media networks, advertisers and others that fail to keep sex trafficking and exploitative materials off their platforms..

President Donald Trump will sign the bill into law next week, said Heitkamp. The legislation, featured prominently in the popular Netflix documentary "I am Jane Doe," amends the Communications Decency Act, which has shielded website operators from state criminal charges or civil liability if they facilitate sex ads or prostitution.

"Shutting down the largest online U.S. marketplace for sex trafficking will dramatically reduce the profitability of forcing people into the commercial sex trade, at least in the short term," said Bradley Myles, chief executive of Polaris, an international anti-slavery group that runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline.

There would be "a dramatic shift in the marketplace starting tonight," he added.

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I can’t tell if the dude in the first pic is supposed to be black or white. It’s like it’s one of BobRob’s ancestors!

[benjipwns]

yeah, that's why he's out front with the girls, but look at the swarthy dude behind the counter

[kingv]

Thanks to Q and Trump for continuing to take down pedo sex traffickers!

[Trent Dole]

There was a Q 'rally' today, about 100 fat ass paula dean looking types were there.

[kingv]

I always figured conspiracy types were mostly dudes, but now my eyes have been opened.

[team filler]

Already be familiar with a bunch of trashy backpage sluts    and have no worries about any of this 

[benjipwns]

http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/09/backpage-founders-93-charges-lack-actual

The Department of Justice this afternoon finally released the indictment against Michael Lacey, founder of Backpage.com, the website the feds seized control over on Friday and shut down.

But Lacey isn't actually charged with actual sex trafficking. He faces 93 total charges, 79 of which are felonies. For the felonies, he's charged with one count of conspiracy, 28 counts of various kinds of money laundering, and 50 counts of violating the Travel Act. The Travel Act is how they're hitting him for prostitution. Soliciting prostitution is not currently a federal crime (as yet). But the Travel Act allows the Department of Justice to intervene and apply federal charges in certain state-level criminal violations that cross state lines or foreign borders. Prostitution is one of the crimes the Travel Act covers, and the Department of Justice has used the Travel Act to shut down other sites (like gay escort site Rentboy.com in 2015). While it's not technically wrong to say that Lacey is being charged with facilitating prostitution (how many media sites are reporting it), the feds are doing so by using a round-about fashion.

The indictment claims that Lacey knew about prostitution ads in Backpage and even bragged about it. When sex trafficking ads appeared on the site that included those who were listed as being underage, prosecutors say Backpage edited the ads to remove any suggestion that a child was involved and reposted. The indictment says that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) gave Lacey and Backpage several recommendations to help prevent underage prostitution from appearing on Backpage, and he declined to adopt them.

The indictment makes it clear that the Department of Justice believe Backpage was doing more than just hosting prostitution ads, but deliberately pursuing them and encouraging them. Therefore, federal law shielding web sites for third-party postings of illegal behavior don't apply here.

The indictment (readable here) posts example after example of Backpage helping facilitate the posting of online prostitution ads by editing the language to conceal the financial exchange, and this included ads for children being pimped for sex. The indictment includes lurid stories of women who were murdered by Johns after being pimped out for sex with Backpage.com ads. There's even a reference to a woman being taken to Phoenix to be sold for sex because the Super Bowl was there, which will no doubt feed into that well-worn sex-trafficking mythology.

As Backpage drew in more and more money—eventually surpassing $100 million per year—Lacey is accused of all sorts of different tactics to shift the money around to shield its origins. And a good chunk of it went back to Lacey. The feds say he pocketed more than $30 million in 2016 filtered through a property company.

The Department of Justice is asking that Lacey be detained for prosecution as both a flight risk and a danger to the community. But if the government does decide to release Lacey prior to trial, they're asking for him to give up his passport, subject himself to electronic monitoring, post a bond, not engage in any financial transactions, and of course, stay away from Backpage.com operations. The indictment also includes forfeiture requests to seize all that money Lacey made from Backpage.

https://apnews.com/339ea77b33754375a3e21599888c971e?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

Executive vice president Scott Spear was charged with facilitating prostitution and money laundering, while chief financial officer John Brunst was charged with money laundering.

Sales and marketing director Dan Hyer, operations manager Andrew Padilla and assistant operations manager Joye Vaught also were charged with facilitating prostitution. The indictment alleged that Padilla threatened to fire any employee who acknowledged in writing that the escorts depicted in ads were actually prostitutes.
...
The seven people charged in the federal indictment are accused of trying to sanitize ads by removing photos and words that were indicative of prostitution and then publishing a revised version of the notices.

indictment:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4434386-Miscellaneous-Relief.html

[bluemax]

Craigslist preemptively pulled all their personal sections before this.

Doh, beaten.