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How is that obvious? I, offhand, don't know how to obtain Backpage's financial records. Can you provide evidence or a sound logical argument demonstrating that
by pharrington 8y ago
How is that obvious? I, offhand, don't know how to obtain Backpage's financial records. Can you provide evidence or a sound logical argument demonstrating that Backpage obviously didn't earn meaningful (maybe we have different meanings of this word?) amounts of money from ads for child sex slaves?
- ryanlol 8y agohttps://www.newsweek.com/backpagecom-made-500-million-prostitution-say-prosecutors-878722 https://www.newsweek.com/backpagecom-made-500-million-prosti... Are you guys really suggesting that open child prostitution is so prevalent in the US that it could possibly make up more than a fraction of a ‰ of backpages business? That sounds completely asinine to me. These guys were literally drowning in money from normal escort ads, why on earth would they want underage escort ads?
- pharrington 8y agoThat is neither a sound logical argument, nor is it evidence towards your point. And to answer your question, Yes. Do you have much familiarity with the various systems in which child sex trafficking happens in the US? If not, that ignorance may be a huge factor towards the dissonance you're displaying.
- michaelmrose 8y agoIn actual practice they didn't want to know or do anything about the legality or illegality of the transactions they were facilitating because a large portion of their draw is the the hands off nature. Its likely that a good chunk of the ads were in fact for over 18 individuals but neither we nor backpage probably know how much was illegal.