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The difference is that in this case, the street owner was explicitly notified (made aware of) the fact that Immortan Joe was using his road to rape and plunder,
by jstarfish 9y ago
The difference is that in this case, the street owner was explicitly notified (made aware of) the fact that Immortan Joe was using his road to rape and plunder, and the street owner responded by providing cover for these activities instead of stopping them.
Backpage (allegedly...) played an active role in conducting sex traffic by posting its own ads and modifying third-party ads for child prostitutes to make them less obvious to authorities. Like Silk Road, there is no deniability-- they know damn well what business they're in, so they don't get to play the "b-b-but we were just running a website!" defense.
- danjoc 9y agoSnapchat should be on notice. They're in the same business. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-yaverbaum/is-snapchat-peddling-porn_b_6826444.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-yaverbaum/is-snapchat-pe...
- ensignavenger 9y agoAnd what they were doing was illegal under existing laws- no need for new ones- unless Congress is just using Backpage as a smokescreen to hide their real motives.
- acabal 9y agoSure, and now Backpage is being prosecuted under current law, which is how the justice system should work. Do we really need another law to tighten the stranglehold on the entire internet, when current laws were apparently already enough to prosecute Backpage?