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Backpage was knowingly colluding with sex traffickers. So, to fix your grocery store analogy, it's more like shutting down a grocery store who was intentionally

Backpage was knowingly colluding with sex traffickers. So, to fix your grocery store analogy, it's more like shutting down a grocery store who was intentionally distributing known bad products from a manufacturer. It's not like "targeting the Internet instead of the actual human traffickers"; they are the actual human traffickers. Also, Backpage wasn't shut down under SESTA; SESTA hadn't yet passed when the site was taken down.

nickthemagicman 9y ago
False. NUMEROUS other sex worker sites have been taken down including reddit removing its sex worker sub. So are we targeting human trafficking or are we targeting prostitution? To use my grocery store analogy its like if one box of cheerios was bad closing down every single grocery store in the country to prevent people from eating bad cheerios then passing a law saying the govt can shut down any grocery it wants in the future on suspicion of bad cheerios.... Heavy handed...
- jakelazaroff 9y ago
  Not false. Backpage was taken down on April 6th [1][2] while SESTA wasn't signed until April 11th [3][4]. It's okay to oppose SESTA, but that's not what this is about. [1] http://www.backpage.com/ http://www.backpage.com/ [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-backpage-justice/sex-ads-website-backpage-shut-down-by-u-s-authorities-idUSKCN1HD2QP https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-backpage-justice/sex-... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_... [4] https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/trump-signs-fosta-sesta-bill-into-law/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/trump-signs-fosta-sesta-...
  - nickthemagicman 9y ago
    Im saying your anology was false because NUMEROUS other sites have been taken down recently beyond just backpage in the name of 'stopping human trafficking'. It's like backdooring encryption to 'prevent terrorism'.

nickthemagicman 9y ago

False. NUMEROUS other sex worker sites have been taken down including reddit removing its sex worker sub. So are we targeting human trafficking or are we targeting prostitution? To use my grocery store analogy its like if one box of cheerios was bad closing down every single grocery store in the country to prevent people from eating bad cheerios then passing a law saying the govt can shut down any grocery it wants in the future on suspicion of bad cheerios.... Heavy handed...

jakelazaroff 9y ago
Not false. Backpage was taken down on April 6th [1][2] while SESTA wasn't signed until April 11th [3][4]. It's okay to oppose SESTA, but that's not what this is about. [1] http://www.backpage.com/ http://www.backpage.com/ [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-backpage-justice/sex-ads-website-backpage-shut-down-by-u-s-authorities-idUSKCN1HD2QP https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-backpage-justice/sex-... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_... [4] https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/trump-signs-fosta-sesta-bill-into-law/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/trump-signs-fosta-sesta-...
- nickthemagicman 9y ago
  Im saying your anology was false because NUMEROUS other sites have been taken down recently beyond just backpage in the name of 'stopping human trafficking'. It's like backdooring encryption to 'prevent terrorism'.