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You would think that it would be helpful to leave Backpage alone, because the cops could use it to figure out who the child sex traffickers are.
by mtdewcmu 10y ago
You would think that it would be helpful to leave Backpage alone, because the cops could use it to figure out who the child sex traffickers are.
- cloakandswagger 10y agoI have a hunch that police didn't uncover lots of child sex trafficking rings on Backpage, nor were they interested in doing so. It was far more useful as a honeypot & revenue generator for them through John stings. Setting up a fake Backpage ad for a weekend and raking in $20k through the relatively safe act of fooling non-violent offenders is the best deal out there for police. At the end of it all you get a nice feel-good headline about how the local PD arrested 40 sex offenders.
- tn13 10y agoThis. Most of the times it was a honeypot service and backpage probably shut it down because of that.