But now they are 'Female companions'.
Does this really make a difference with the change in the law?
Does this really make a difference with the change in the law?
LeoList no longer has Female escorts
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Alabama Blaze
It just means Peter McKay and the boys have won without having to throw a single punch. They had this in mind when they added the provison to begin with.
Censorhsip may have been the goal all along. Most websites are hosted in foreign countries. The legal hurdles the Canadian Govenment would need to overcome to obtain a supeona for overseas web hosts is staggering and extemely expensive. Especially if it's not absolutely clear that a law is being broken.
I'm doubtful any Admins will be prosecuted under the new laws. The odds of any successful prosecutions against a website owner is very low. People have been trying to sue the Dirty for years under exisitng defamation laws, wrongful deaths and the list goes-on.
Censorhsip may have been the goal all along. Most websites are hosted in foreign countries. The legal hurdles the Canadian Govenment would need to overcome to obtain a supeona for overseas web hosts is staggering and extemely expensive. Especially if it's not absolutely clear that a law is being broken.
I'm doubtful any Admins will be prosecuted under the new laws. The odds of any successful prosecutions against a website owner is very low. People have been trying to sue the Dirty for years under exisitng defamation laws, wrongful deaths and the list goes-on.
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The silly thing is that "Female companion" is a synonym to "escort". Both are euphemisms for prostitution in the first place so changing the label is pointless. An 'escort' is not a prostitute.
My only hope is that enough people get paranoid that there's more competition and it lowers the rates for those of us that see this nonsense as the charade that it is.
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I agree Westcoast.
It's all semantics. Even worse, all of these constant changes will hurt LeoList Alexa scores, Google and Bing rankings for a while. They already took a pretty big hit on their web rankings when they changed the site's name. Flip-flopping on key search categories compounds things.
Making too many changes will impact the advertisers. You can understand their concern. Backpage has yet to amend it's advertising polices. Many of the ad's make clear reference to sexual services.
If the Canadian Govenment can't impede their will upon backpage, now and several other publications, then they're going to have a hard time enforcing the laws upon anyone else.
For a laugh WestCoast: Here's the ad's on Sweden's Backpage site. Looking at the ad's on the Swedish BP, it appears Peter McKay picked a winner when chose to copy the Nordic model. As you can see from the ad's in Sweden's BP page, it's not having any impact.
http://sweden.backpage.com/FemaleEscorts/
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The most important thing is to not allow ad's that promote sexual services coded or otherwise. Time and companionship is not agaisnt the law. There's dozen or escort agency advertising in the yellow pages that offer dates for parties and scocial functions.
Hosesty, poor old Pete McKay and the mod squad can't do much if people are following the laws.
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