Taken down after FBI raid.
Hilarious that porn stars/hookers are furious.
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“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
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Thank goodness we lost a little more freedom, today.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
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From how they're describing it, the FBI didn't shut down backpage. The backpage people did.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
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Why are the hookers blaming backpage?
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
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Not knowing anything about backpage or the legality of the transactions occurring:
I gathered it was a way to arrange for paid sex. Which, except for a very few locations, is illegal. And since I also believe there are a LOT of people in the sex industry that are there against their will, I don't see how we lost any freedoms here. You weren't free to do any of the stuff being sold there to begin with. So, they shut down the site enabling illegal activities? And made it that much harder for people to profit from sex trafficking.
I gathered it was a way to arrange for paid sex. Which, except for a very few locations, is illegal. And since I also believe there are a LOT of people in the sex industry that are there against their will, I don't see how we lost any freedoms here. You weren't free to do any of the stuff being sold there to begin with. So, they shut down the site enabling illegal activities? And made it that much harder for people to profit from sex trafficking.
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First craigslist personals, now this. Damn Trump.
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This is going to increase the number of pimps, which things like Backpage had reduced.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
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I'm all for ending sex trafficking. I'm not for making something illegal that's in high demand, you can give away for free, and you can charge for, but only if you let someone film it.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
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Yes, insanity. Legalize ita llI'm not for making something illegal that's in high demand, you can give away for free, and you can charge for, but only if you let someone film it.
It's not me, it's someone else.
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Ok, but it's not legal right now. So the freedom was already not there. The site going down didn't take any freedom away. Whether prostitution should be legal or not is irrelevant when measuring the amount of freedom that was lost when that page went down.