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That's pretty much the case with just about every "sex trafficking" bust, isn't it? Lots of talk about rescuing children and what not, but in the end women, who
by Fins 7y ago
That's pretty much the case with just about every "sex trafficking" bust, isn't it? Lots of talk about rescuing children and what not, but in the end women, who are supposedly being helped, are hauled off to the slammer, customers, too, and not a single trafficking victim is found. But that doesn't make for good headlines, so the latter part is rarely reported.
Backpage got caught in a perfect combination of "baptists and bootleggers" where, except for people who actually do try to help trafficking victims, exploited kids, etc., who all found BP quite useful and cooperative, everybody, left and right, wanted to shut it down for purely ideological reasons. In the end, nobody came out ahead.
- paggle 7y agoIt’s doubly sad because sex trafficking definitely exists (cf Epstein) but finding some single mom giving handjobs to widowers is much easier for cops to handcuff and call “sex trafficking.”
- Fins 7y agoOh, definitely. I'm sure that even the kind of trafficking that Backpage was accused of aiding and abetting also exists, although obviously to far lesser degree than people who feed off of fighting it would want us to believe. But busting some Chinese grandma giving handies in a parlor (after getting some at taxpayers' expense) is so much easier than running after gangbangers, and gives points with voters, so that's what we get...