CEO of Backpage Arrested on Pimping Charges
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It looks like the the US is doing there best to drive the sex trade underground .and allowing organized crime to control pimping..trafficking and the slave trade.
Sure backpage had adds on there Web pages from many cities that could be underage girls and trafficked..but then why don't the police investigate those add and go halter the people placing them. .If they shut down places like backpage then how will they even be aware of what's going on .. Maybe that's there plan just get the adds outbid the public view and claim they have stopped pimping underage girls and trafficking..Great idea bury their head in the sand.
As for the CEO of back page . The company make 100s of millions.
I am sure he can come up with bail
Sure backpage had adds on there Web pages from many cities that could be underage girls and trafficked..but then why don't the police investigate those add and go halter the people placing them. .If they shut down places like backpage then how will they even be aware of what's going on .. Maybe that's there plan just get the adds outbid the public view and claim they have stopped pimping underage girls and trafficking..Great idea bury their head in the sand.
As for the CEO of back page . The company make 100s of millions.
I am sure he can come up with bail
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Larry Storch
While I agree that they should be allowed to run ads submitted by people; they should improve their screening process to ensure that no one is being exploited. Making around 2 Mil per month you'd think they'd have a little spare cash to implement something with either technology or staff.
Is this surprising? I think it's been a long known fact that dealing with anyone you find on backpage is going to be somewhat shady, and the lady may or may not be being objectified or even being forced to work. Backpage has always been a place for pimps and their victims. There are many places for legitimate ladies to advertise. Backpage is basically the pits of Hell as far as the industry goes.
That being said, first amendment rabble rabble rabble
Lol
That being said, first amendment rabble rabble rabble
Lol
In smaller cities, or at least in my town, BP is all there is and I think it's a stretch to say all women on there are being pimped out, trafficked or shady. Most that I've encountered are just honest independents looking for somewhere to advertise and with few options available to them.
Some of those comments ladies are totally uncalled for when it comes to victoria and Vancouver and the girls that advertise on backpage here
Many of the girls from this board advertise on bother backpage and leolist.
I look at the local adds on both and only a few time have notice some one new that could be pimped ..and I might know them and know why..
But most adds around here are from girls that are reviewed and been on it for a long time .
And again if some one reports an add it is deleted
And the other side is what will the police do if you report an add to them , they you thing the girl is underage or bing pimped.? Not a dam thing!!! .A complaint has to be based on a little more then an add on backpage .
Many of the girls from this board advertise on bother backpage and leolist.
I look at the local adds on both and only a few time have notice some one new that could be pimped ..and I might know them and know why..
But most adds around here are from girls that are reviewed and been on it for a long time .
And again if some one reports an add it is deleted
And the other side is what will the police do if you report an add to them , they you thing the girl is underage or bing pimped.? Not a dam thing!!! .A complaint has to be based on a little more then an add on backpage .
in a horrible twist....
it turns out that backpage's attempts to thwart human trafficking and child exploitation through cooperating with law enforcement in those cases.....
is being used as evidence against them in this case....
here's what the triplex rep's copied from Reason news media;
Here's How Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer Supposedly Profited From Child Sex Trafficking - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Their "evidence"? It's... insane. I don't know how else to describe it other than that. Throughout the complaint, Fichtner uses instances of Backpage cooperating with law-enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in identifying and finding potential victims as evidence that Backpage profits off of exploitation. Backpage is literally rejecting—and turning over to the government—ads that may promote sex trafficking, and the government says, see! proof that sex traffickers love Backpage! Shut it down! It's like a building owner reporting predatory activity out front and the cops arresting him and tearing up the street corner instead of tracking
down the predator.
way to destroy the best tool they had to actually combat these crimes....
love susie
it turns out that backpage's attempts to thwart human trafficking and child exploitation through cooperating with law enforcement in those cases.....
is being used as evidence against them in this case....
here's what the triplex rep's copied from Reason news media;
Here's How Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer Supposedly Profited From Child Sex Trafficking - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Their "evidence"? It's... insane. I don't know how else to describe it other than that. Throughout the complaint, Fichtner uses instances of Backpage cooperating with law-enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in identifying and finding potential victims as evidence that Backpage profits off of exploitation. Backpage is literally rejecting—and turning over to the government—ads that may promote sex trafficking, and the government says, see! proof that sex traffickers love Backpage! Shut it down! It's like a building owner reporting predatory activity out front and the cops arresting him and tearing up the street corner instead of tracking
down the predator.
way to destroy the best tool they had to actually combat these crimes....
love susie
*sigh* I wouldn't mind making a fraction of that amount.... all that cash!
Hmm, *thinking of the next get rich quick gimmick* Ah... yeah...
Hmm, *thinking of the next get rich quick gimmick* Ah... yeah...
I think it is a little difficult to screen for underage or trafficking, because it is not like the people placing the ads outright say that is what is being offered. So how would anyone know unless they actually see the SP in question.
These adds are public, which means that police can read them as well. If it was so obvious that someone was underage or trafficked, what is to stop the police from simply answering the add and doing something about it? The fact that they are not suggests to me that anecdotal accounts say that these issues are widespread, but they are actually not that common. If you look the numbers during one of their regular nationwide sweeps supposedly targeting underage prostitution, the numbers of minors they actually find is usually less than a hundred, from an operation conducted over a number of days with thousands of law enforcement officers taking part. How hard can it be to find these girls? The numbers actually found in these sweeps suggests that there simply are not that many of them out there.
This campaign against Backpage is just being used as a smokescreen to take down the visible aspects of regular prostitution without actually doing anything about it. The police and activists will pat each others backs and congratulate themselves on a job well done, but the ladies are simply going to find a different method to connect with clients, as they have done since money was first invented.
These adds are public, which means that police can read them as well. If it was so obvious that someone was underage or trafficked, what is to stop the police from simply answering the add and doing something about it? The fact that they are not suggests to me that anecdotal accounts say that these issues are widespread, but they are actually not that common. If you look the numbers during one of their regular nationwide sweeps supposedly targeting underage prostitution, the numbers of minors they actually find is usually less than a hundred, from an operation conducted over a number of days with thousands of law enforcement officers taking part. How hard can it be to find these girls? The numbers actually found in these sweeps suggests that there simply are not that many of them out there.
This campaign against Backpage is just being used as a smokescreen to take down the visible aspects of regular prostitution without actually doing anything about it. The police and activists will pat each others backs and congratulate themselves on a job well done, but the ladies are simply going to find a different method to connect with clients, as they have done since money was first invented.
It's a lesson to be very careful about reporting things to police.
Quite a few years ago, I reported a website to the police (turns out the place I was reporting to was in Ontario OPP) and fortunately I used my free hotmail email.
The response I got was something like this; "Why are you using an anonymous email address. I can tell where you are, and who you are by your web provider (no he could not because I sent it from a library computer - thankfully) so you might as well tell me who you are."
Then at the very end of the email a short sentence saying the website would be checked out.
I never ever reported anything after that
Quite a few years ago, I reported a website to the police (turns out the place I was reporting to was in Ontario OPP) and fortunately I used my free hotmail email.
The response I got was something like this; "Why are you using an anonymous email address. I can tell where you are, and who you are by your web provider (no he could not because I sent it from a library computer - thankfully) so you might as well tell me who you are."
Then at the very end of the email a short sentence saying the website would be checked out.
I never ever reported anything after that
