FBI Shuts Down Popular Website Backpage.Com

[Gunny]

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UPDATED 9:10 AM PT – Sat. April 7, 2018Federal authorities seize backpage.com (http://backpage.com/) following an investigation into the site’s sexual advertisements. One America’s Chlos Salsameda has the story.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=72&v=LFzlu5wkV_g

A few pervs off the street. Get this counter-argument: Shutting down backpage may do more harm than good because its users may turn to the "dark web" which is more dangerous. :rolleyes:

Do people go out and actually meet live human beings anymore?

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Never heard of it.

[Gunny]

Never heard of it.Me neither. Just found the article. Probably makes us normal. Doesn't sound like my sort of crowd from listening to the video.

What caught my attention was that lame-ass counter argument. Had to have been a Dem :laugh:

[LongTermGuy]

"Prostitution still thrives on Backpage despite site shutdown of 'adult' section"

The body of Ashley Mays – a 20-year-old woman who was nine-months pregnant -- was found strangled to death inside a suburban Atlanta hotel room with zip ties binding her hands and feet.

Just over a month later – on Christmas Eve – 16-year-old Desiree Robinson’s body was discovered in a pool of blood in a garage in a southwestern Chicago suburb. A bloody knife was found at the scene and an autopsy report determined that the teen had been beaten and strangled before having her throat slit.


Besides the gruesome nature in which they were killed, what connects the cases of Mays and Robinson is that both young women had advertised as escorts on the classified site Backpage.com. Much like Craigslist, users can go to Backpage to buy and sell everything from cars to furniture, but for a long time the site's “Adult” section became a clearinghouse for prostitutes and the johns looking for their services.


They have just moved from the Adult section to what Backpage terms as the Dating section,” Lt. Curtis Williams, who as part of the DeKalb County Police helped investigate Mays’ murder, told Fox News. “And they’re smart about it. They don’t use explicit terms, but instead say things like ‘looking for companionship’ or ‘looking for a good time.’”


Backpage was launched in 2004 and quickly became the second-largest online classified site in the United States following Craigslist. The site, however, also quickly came under scrutiny from prosecutors and human trafficking organizations for its Adult section, which opponents say worked as an open air market for prostitutes and turned the website’s owners in virtual pimps.


The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (http://www.missingkids.com/home) said that 73 percent of all child trafficking reports it receives involve Backpage. Further, citing internal company documents, the Senate report said that Backpage altered ads before publication by deleting words, phrases and images that indicated criminal behavior, including child sex trafficking.


The report struck Backpage like a bombshell and – along with Visa, Mastercard and American Express all voluntarily putting a halt to accepting business from Backpage in 2015 – led the site to not just shut its Adult section but remove it from its homepage all together.
Backpage did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment"


http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/05/01/prostitution-still-thrives-on-backpage-despite-site-shutdown-adult-section.html

[aboutime]

"Prostitution still thrives on Backpage despite site shutdown of 'adult' section"

The body of Ashley Mays – a 20-year-old woman who was nine-months pregnant -- was found strangled to death inside a suburban Atlanta hotel room with zip ties binding her hands and feet.

Just over a month later – on Christmas Eve – 16-year-old Desiree Robinson’s body was discovered in a pool of blood in a garage in a southwestern Chicago suburb. A bloody knife was found at the scene and an autopsy report determined that the teen had been beaten and strangled before having her throat slit.


Besides the gruesome nature in which they were killed, what connects the cases of Mays and Robinson is that both young women had advertised as escorts on the classified site Backpage.com. Much like Craigslist, users can go to Backpage to buy and sell everything from cars to furniture, but for a long time the site's “Adult” section became a clearinghouse for prostitutes and the johns looking for their services.


They have just moved from the Adult section to what Backpage terms as the Dating section,” Lt. Curtis Williams, who as part of the DeKalb County Police helped investigate Mays’ murder, told Fox News. “And they’re smart about it. They don’t use explicit terms, but instead say things like ‘looking for companionship’ or ‘looking for a good time.’”


Backpage was launched in 2004 and quickly became the second-largest online classified site in the United States following Craigslist. The site, however, also quickly came under scrutiny from prosecutors and human trafficking organizations for its Adult section, which opponents say worked as an open air market for prostitutes and turned the website’s owners in virtual pimps.


The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (http://www.missingkids.com/home) said that 73 percent of all child trafficking reports it receives involve Backpage. Further, citing internal company documents, the Senate report said that Backpage altered ads before publication by deleting words, phrases and images that indicated criminal behavior, including child sex trafficking.


The report struck Backpage like a bombshell and – along with Visa, Mastercard and American Express all voluntarily putting a halt to accepting business from Backpage in 2015 – led the site to not just shut its Adult section but remove it from its homepage all together.
Backpage did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment"


http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/05/01/prostitution-still-thrives-on-backpage-despite-site-shutdown-adult-section.html







The Clinton Foundation, Soros, The DNC, and much of the Obama administration ALSO HAD TIES to this kind of stuff. If my memory serves me right. It also helped in many ways to bring Young Females to America to become paid prostitutes that SERVICED many names we might know...and WE CAN'T FORGET Hollywierd, and Harvey Weinstein....SHOULD I GO ON???

[Gunny]

The Clinton Foundation, Soros, The DNC, and much of the Obama administration ALSO HAD TIES to this kind of stuff. If my memory serves me right. It also helped in many ways to bring Young Females to America to become paid prostitutes that SERVICED many names we might know...and WE CAN'T FORGET Hollywierd, and Harvey Weinstein....SHOULD I GO ON???What bugs me is that there is even a market for this kind of filth. The left has thrown out all responsibility that goes with freedom in this country.

They should be thrown out.

[LongTermGuy]

#pervertLeft (https://twitter.com/hashtag/pervertLeft?src=hash)#pervertKimmel (https://twitter.com/hashtag/pervertKimmel?src=hash) Defending democrat donors who KNOWINGLY HELPED HUMAN

TRAFFICKING FOR *RAPE* & *TORTURE* Children & adults#WomensMarch (https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensMarch?src=hash) is is pro women’s

SLAVERYMatch Run by #Farrakhan (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Farrakhan?src=hash), who Thinks women are the PROPERTY of men! Our tax money

funds them too!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaO45-sVMAE2ry2.jpg

[Taco Junkie]

#pervertLeft (https://twitter.com/hashtag/pervertLeft?src=hash)#pervertKimmel (https://twitter.com/hashtag/pervertKimmel?src=hash) Defending democrat donors who KNOWINGLY HELPED HUMAN

TRAFFICKING FOR *RAPE* & *TORTURE* Children & adults#WomensMarch (https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensMarch?src=hash) is is pro women’s

SLAVERYMatch Run by #Farrakhan (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Farrakhan?src=hash), who Thinks women are the PROPERTY of men! Our tax money

funds them too!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaO45-sVMAE2ry2.jpg


Are you fucking kidding me?? Sex workers' rights? They have the right to find a legal job and it may not support their drug habit but there are programs for that too. Next we'll have to support their pension plan.

[jimnyc]

If there truly was trafficking of underage girls, directly through the website, and the website allowed for it - then by all means, seize it for evidence and arrest.

But the feds doing so in the future, they better always have damn good reason, similar to this, and have warrants ready. Anytime something gets seized like that, it makes me cringe and pray that all legal procedures were taken, and that the person having property seized truly did something unlawful. That's right, I don't trust the federal fuckers.

[Gunny]

If there truly was trafficking of underage girls, directly through the website, and the website allowed for it - then by all means, seize it for evidence and arrest.

But the feds doing so in the future, they better always have damn good reason, similar to this, and have warrants ready. Anytime something gets seized like that, it makes me cringe and pray that all legal procedures were taken, and that the person having property seized truly did something unlawful. That's right, I don't trust the federal fuckers.I sort of agree, and DO see where you are coming from. Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where our freedoms bite us in the ass. Not because we have them, but because of the people who abuse them. It should be handled case by case, as it appears this was.

I think all our laws should be handled in the same manner instead of over-reacting to the creeps and depriving the majority of their Rights.

[mundame]

I saw the headlines; it must be popular for there to be this much fuss, but I had never heard of Backpage. I used Craig's List a couple times (sold some chickens, believe it or not) but I didn't like the whole feel of it.

I want to read more about the Dark Net because it's all mixed up with Bitcoin, which I think is going to be big. The Dark Net is where people world-wide trade for drugs, basically. Which Bitcoin was used to buy for some time. People in China were and are sending drugs and drug ingredients through the U.S. mail and other carriers straight to people's homes: you can imagine the boom in business.

[Gunny]

I saw the headlines; it must be popular for there to be this much fuss, but I had never heard of Backpage. I used Craig's List a couple times (sold some chickens, believe it or not) but I didn't like the whole feel of it.

I want to read more about the Dark Net because it's all mixed up with Bitcoin, which I think is going to be big. The Dark Net is where people world-wide trade for drugs, basically. Which Bitcoin was used to buy for some time. People in China were and are sending drugs and drug ingredients through the U.S. mail and other carriers straight to people's homes: you can imagine the boom in business.I NEVER hear about crap like this until they get caught and it's too late :bang3:

[LongTermGuy]

I saw the headlines; it must be popular for there to be this much fuss, but I had never heard of Backpage. I used Craig's List a couple times (sold some chickens, believe it or not) but I didn't like the whole feel of it.

I want to read more about the Dark Net because it's all mixed up with Bitcoin, which I think is going to be big. The Dark Net is where people world-wide trade for drugs, basically. Which Bitcoin was used to buy for some time. People in China were and are sending drugs and drug ingredients through the U.S. mail and other carriers straight to people's homes: you can imagine the boom in business.


Going Dark: The Internet Behind The Internet. Tor is the main browser people use to access Darknet sites, allowing users to remain completely anonymous.


http://cdn1.alphr.com/sites/alphr/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/2016/02/tor_dark_web_3.png?itok=uBrzYeLs

If you want to access the dark web and dark websites, here's a quick guide to finding the right tools...

**What is the dark web?

`Created in the mid 1990s by military researchers in the US, the technology which paved the way for what is now known as the dark web was used by intelligence officers to share files anonymously.

That initial platform was called 'Tor', which stands for 'The Onion Router'.

How to access the dark web:

http://www.alphr.com/technology/1002667/how-to-access-the-dark-web-what-is-tor-and-how-do-i-use-it

http://hlaoo1980.blogspot.com/2016/04/tor-deep-web-darknet-behind-internet.html

[mundame]

Going Dark: The Internet Behind The Internet. Tor is the main browser people use to access Darknet sites, allowing users to remain completely anonymous.


http://cdn1.alphr.com/sites/alphr/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/2016/02/tor_dark_web_3.png?itok=uBrzYeLs

If you want to access the dark web and dark websites, here's a quick guide to finding the right tools...

**What is the dark web?

`Created in the mid 1990s by military researchers in the US, the technology which paved the way for what is now known as the dark web was used by intelligence officers to share files anonymously.

That initial platform was called 'Tor', which stands for 'The Onion Router'.

How to access the dark web:



You know a lot about it........................ :)

Yeah, TOR, every scifi novel involving near-term messing with the Internet has characters that use it. I had read that it was invented by NSA --- funny how all this kind of stuff is, somehow. I suppose the same people who program the original military coding take it home with them and set it free on the WWWeb.

Snowden and Manning set loose pretty much all the information our government has or transmits; all secret coding and viruses and Trojan programs our government uses are on the Dark Net; China steals pretty much every commercial secret any company here has; our movies all are pirated; Facebook and Google collect and sell pretty much everything about everybody.

We don't seem good at keeping secrets, as a nation.