Sex Trafficking Website Backpage taken down:
U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a posting on the Backpage website on Friday.
A Phoenix FBI official said that there was “law enforcement activity” on Friday at the Sedona, Arizona home of Michael Lacey, one of the founders of Backpage.
Groups and political leaders working to end forced prostitution and child exploitation celebrated the shutdown of Backpage, a massive ad marketplace that is primarily used to sell sex. But some internet and free speech advocates warned the action could lead to harsh federal limits on expression and the press.
Apparently this was what Q was talking about being in the news.
One thing about the sexually deviant is that they are very savvy about protecting themselves. Homosexual advocacy organizations used to discuss advocating for pedophiles, as a way of insulating themselves from criticism and normalizing their own behavior by creating an even stranger sexual proclivity in society. Their thinking was if pedophiles are abusing children in society, who is going to waste time criticizing mere gays?
I wonder if pedophiles among the elites might think that way too, and funnel money into setting up something like backpage. If I am a billionaire tech/investor/cabal entity, and I am the only guy paying parents to bring me their ten year old daughters so I can abuse them, I am quite vulnerable to Law Enforcement tracking me down and putting me behind bars since I will be their only target.
But if there are several websites, facilitating hundreds of thousands of such activities, or maybe even millions, each day among poorer, and perhaps even more deviant individuals, Law Enforcement is probably going to work through those sites before it even begins to look at my isolated transactions. And those sites being prosecuted will offer me ample warning of what is coming, should the political/cultural mores ever change in such a way that the government might come after me.
If Pizzagate is real, I could see the Podesta brothers, or those types, funneling a few million dollars into this site for exactly that reason. It would be a buffer between them and the FBI’s Child Trafficking Taskforce, and it would serve as an early warning system.
This takedown could be a way to grab a thread that will ultimately unravel back toward the elites and the whole Pizzagate crew. If we know anything about the God Emperor, it is that he doesn’t stupidly attack from the front and look for the fast win. He lays out strategy, looks for weak spots, and then methodically takes apart his enemy piece by piece in a way they can’t possibly defend.
This could be a bigger story than it at first appears.
If I were teaching Beginning Web Design 101 at a middle-tier tech college, I’d expect each student to code up a Craigslist/Backpage clone by semester’s end. There’s really nothing to it, other than somehow establishing your page as the Schelling point between buyers and sellers.
The most important part of your business plan is that neither you nor your website can have any physical presence in the USA or any of its vassal states, because the government *will* hold you liable for anything users post on it. The fact that someone else will set up a replacement site as soon as yours is taken down will not make your daily ass-pounding any more enjoyable.
Reminds one of when Obama used the DHS to take that gay escort site in NYC a few years back. The DHS, mind you. Not the FBI or state agency. Curious.
another variable that makes your point is that the vast majority of these listing websites are totally free for the posters and customers. they cannot be a moneymaking venture, ads, meh, if you look at those numbers. some of these websites have operated for a decade or more like this. who pays the bills. perhaps one or two were labors of love for people who support sexual freedom, but there is much more.
additionally during the tech boom times, online prostitution exploded. perhaps these websites were also setup by middle to upper class customers to support their hobby when they had the money to play. build a free advertising platform and the girls will come, instantly you have a catalog to search through.
many interests intersected in this area during a heavily r time.
“The world’s oldest profession”, as it’s euphemistically called, is not going to go away. No matter what Uncle Fed does, it will simply reappear somewhere else.
Similarly, its more revolting sibling – human trafficking – will not curl up and die a well-deserved death.
The state of Nevada has arrived at what seems to be a workable compromise (nobody’s really happy with it). Legalize, regulate, and tax prostitution.
I don’t like it. I’d be happier if the women in question had some other marketable skill that wouldn’t involve such a surrender of their self-respect.
But nobody ever said that I had to like it.