For those with the attention span to get thru this, the venerable Liz Brown spells out the facts in her typical fashion.
https://reason.com/blog/2017/01/13/c...ckpage-inquiry
Pay particular attention to the part about Section 230 and how this is much bigger than Backpage. It's a threat 1st amendment to the internet as we know it today.
Originally Posted by trojantide
This is WELL WORTH the time to read through. It will both educate you thoroughly and....scare the fuck out of you. You won't be scared about the "evils" of the internet and how every kid with a cell phone could end up trafficked on BP. But you WILL be damn scared of these self-promoting, self-aggrandizing assholes who are lying and tell you that this is a "reasonable and necessary" restriction of the First Amendment.
And these are the same shitbags who will tell you that they are scared about the dangers Trump poses to the First Amendment just 'cuz he hates CNN.... jeezis.... (meanwhile, Obama did the same shit....just not as publicly.....but no one remembers...)
But I digress. I'm gonna give some $$ to this person, I think:
https://www.childrenofthenight.org/who-we-are/
Yeah...she's a bit too self-righteous and self-promoting herself, but she's one of the only folks with ANY kind of experience and credibility in trafficking that is willing to go out on a limb and call
BULLSHIT on this whole thing.
Here's my fav part of the article trojan references...and it has to do with her...I'd STRONGLY encourage that you at least read this excerpt:
"False Hope
"It's all about hysteria around girls having sex," says Lois Lee, founder and longtime head of Los Angeles-based charity Children of the Night, when I speak to her just after the hearing. "Not one time in this hearing, with all the money they spent, did they mention a gay or lesbian youth, a transgender youth."
Founded in 1979, Lee's nonprofit works with young people involved in or fleeing prostitution, regardless of how they came to be involved in it or how much agency they exhibited therein. Over the years, the group has helped thousands of American kids, says Lee, and currently hosts kids from all over the country in its 24-bed facility. For the past few years, Lee has been speaking out on behalf of Backpage, which she sees as an ally in the fight to help "prostituted children." She got involved after being approached by vice detectives "who asked me to go after the [anti] trafficking organizations to stop them from harassing Backpage because Backpage was such a great investigative tool for them," Lee says.
In her mind, "there's no question" that destroying sites like Backpage will hamper investigations into sex trafficking. "Everything's going to go to the Dark Web," she laments—where sites won't voluntarily run the National Human Trafficking Hotline number (as Backpage does) or collect credit card information and phone numbers that can be useful in criminal investigations. "It's not the ad" itself that helps law enforcement, says Lee, but "all the information."
The subcomittee's "solutions are highbrow, but they're not practical," says Lee. The kids she works with are frequently from abusive homes or have mental-health issues, substance-abuse issues, and other influences that are way more relevant to their involvement in prostitution than any individual perpetrator or advertising venue. What American kids really need are material resources like safe, youth-only homeless shelters and government resources that don't—at best—simply return them to the environments they ran away from or give them vouchers for local hotels—when not shuffling them into the criminal justice system.
Lee says she sees kids where cops won't arrest them for prostitution, "because they're considered victims, but then they hold them as a material witness." Another problem, she says, is "we have children who have ads on Backpage, the police are involved, the prosecutors are involved, there's an investigation," and then "prosecutors demand those ads stay there, for sometimes as long as a year, while waiting to prosecute the pimp/trafficker."
Open yer eyes, my peeps and cucks. When these motherfuckers get finished....Section 230....which should probably be a constitutional amendment itself....will be GONE. And they won't fucking stop there....EVER.
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