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> Unfortunately all this might mean is that child trafficking cases not reported on Backpage have a much higher chance of never being reported. That is, in fac
by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Unfortunately all this might mean is that child trafficking cases not reported on Backpage have a much higher chance of never being reported.
That is, in fact, exactly what it means.
That's why everyone from sex trafficking survivors to the Department of Justice was telling Congress not to pass the badly-named SESTA/FOSTA bills, because preventing people from conducting (consensual) sex work online makes it much harder to rescue actual victims of sex trafficking.
- empath75 8y agoIt backpage wasn’t limiting itself to consensual sex work. They were literally working with pimps that were selling kidnapped children to be raped.
- chimeracoder 8y ago> It backpage wasn’t limiting itself to consensual sex work. They were literally working with pimps that were selling kidnapped children to be raped. As I already said, it's a lot easier to find victims of sex trafficking, rescue them, and prosecute the traffickers when sites like Backpage exist. That's literally why prosecutors opposed SESTA/FOSTA in the first place, along with former victims of sex trafficking.