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This is akin to seizing a house in which trafficking occurs.

viraptor 9y ago
Just at the wrong scale. Try "closing a large town where trafficking occurs".
DanBC 9y ago
It really isn't. It's akin to seizing a house when the owner tells the criminal gangs how to advertise to evade law enforcement attention. Backpage knew exactly what was happening (the drugging, kidnapping, and rape of children for money being advertised on backpage), and they actively encouraged it. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report%202017.01.10%20FINAL.pdf https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
- justherefortart 9y ago
  Who's paying you to post this same shit over and over?
  - DenisM 9y ago
    DanBC kind of ticked me off with his repeated posts too, but then I read the link he posted. It's quite bad. Read the first two pages, and you will start re-posting that link too.
    - justherefortart 9y ago
      You're assuming it's honest and not political fodder as well. Nah, the Congress would NEVER do that, right?
      - DanBC 9y ago
        Assume for a moment that the politicians lie at every opportunity. You don't have to believe them. You can read the report and source the court documents. Those will tell you what Backpage themselves said: We knew about it, we didn't have to do anything because of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
  - jijji 9y ago
    that might make sense if backpage charges for postings, but they dont
    - DanBC 9y ago
      Backpage did charge for these postings. 90% of its income came from adult ads. I don't know how many of those were consenting adults providing services vs non-consenting adults or children.
  - Natsu 9y ago
    DanBC is a long time HN poster, I don't seriously believe anyone is paying him and he's almost the only person here offering more information and not just opinions. HN guidelines say to assume good faith. I'll leave it up to @dang and the rest to decide if your comment does that or not.
  - dang 9y ago
    This breaks the site guidelines. Please read them and don't do that, regardless of how annoying you may find another commenter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've done this repeatedly. If you keep doing it, we will ban you, so would you please fix this?

Just at the wrong scale. Try "closing a large town where trafficking occurs".

It really isn't. It's akin to seizing a house when the owner tells the criminal gangs how to advertise to evade law enforcement attention. Backpage knew exactly what was happening (the drugging, kidnapping, and rape of children for money being advertised on backpage), and they actively encouraged it. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report%202017.01.10%20FINAL.pdf https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...

justherefortart 9y ago
Who's paying you to post this same shit over and over?
- DenisM 9y ago
  DanBC kind of ticked me off with his repeated posts too, but then I read the link he posted. It's quite bad. Read the first two pages, and you will start re-posting that link too.
  - justherefortart 9y ago
    You're assuming it's honest and not political fodder as well. Nah, the Congress would NEVER do that, right?
    - DanBC 9y ago
      Assume for a moment that the politicians lie at every opportunity. You don't have to believe them. You can read the report and source the court documents. Those will tell you what Backpage themselves said: We knew about it, we didn't have to do anything because of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
- jijji 9y ago
  that might make sense if backpage charges for postings, but they dont
  - DanBC 9y ago
    Backpage did charge for these postings. 90% of its income came from adult ads. I don't know how many of those were consenting adults providing services vs non-consenting adults or children.
- Natsu 9y ago
  DanBC is a long time HN poster, I don't seriously believe anyone is paying him and he's almost the only person here offering more information and not just opinions. HN guidelines say to assume good faith. I'll leave it up to @dang and the rest to decide if your comment does that or not.
- dang 9y ago
  This breaks the site guidelines. Please read them and don't do that, regardless of how annoying you may find another commenter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've done this repeatedly. If you keep doing it, we will ban you, so would you please fix this?