BACKPAGE ESCORT LISTINGS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN FOR GOOD IT APPEARS

Providers and hobbyists woke up this morning to see BACKCKPAGE ESCORTS LISTINGS PERMANENTLY GONE. See the link below for more.

http://www.backpage.com/classifieds/Media

Mods. If this is not the correct place for this post please move it to where it belongs.

Lets move this to Coed

This was coming due to how sloppy BP was getting over screening for age requirements. Samething happened with redbook. Greed over common sense. SMH

Everything moved to BP dating area.

The story makes a lot of the reasoning to go after them based on BP employees and filters educating advertisers in how to PLACE ads and not reporting to authorities possible advertisement of illegal activities.

How is that different than what staff does here when editing content in ads or posts?

All shutting BP down does is force those they really want to crack down on to find other mediums to advertise on in the areas they are active. Like it or not many will find their way here.

Does anyone really think there were more than a handful across the country that woke up and thought... "Hmmm... Guess I ought to quit this now and go to work for Walmart".

Ever heard of "Whack-a-Mole"?

Everything moved to BP dating area. Originally Posted by DocHolyday

Good catch, my friend - ads in Women Seeking Men all of a sudden jumped from one a day to almost a hundred.

They say that water always seeks the path of least resistance, and the human body is 98% water, so there you go.

Now if they can just organize Women Seeking Men by
Escorts, Body Rubs, and Doms, we might be back to normal.

After the ceo was arrested last year, I kind of expected this to happen. I assumed it would only be a matter of time.

What?!! No more bait & switch CBJs?

It should be back up soon as the criminal case against the site and principals has been dismissed. I guess they're using Women seeking Men in the meantime.
http://austin.backpage.com/WomenSeekMen/

backpage wont last long as they are set to hear from the government tomorrow, expect to see a huge influx here and also on shitty "social" apps

The traffic in the Massage section under Services has also increased exponentially.

The story makes a lot of the reasoning to go after them based on BP employees and filters educating advertisers in how to PLACE ads and not reporting to authorities possible advertisement of illegal activities.

How is that different than what staff does here when editing content in ads or posts?

All shutting BP down does is force those they really want to crack down on to find other mediums to advertise on in the areas they are active. Like it or not many will find their way here.

Does anyone really think there were more than a handful across the country that woke up and thought... "Hmmm... Guess I ought to quit this now and go to work for Walmart". Originally Posted by Whispers

BP was a great resource for LE to easily sting bad operators. Now they won't have that any more. It's politics. Politicians will claim that it was an outrage to let them continue. Loud mouths and busy bodies in the public were screaming.

The story makes a lot of the reasoning to go after them based on BP employees and filters educating advertisers in how to PLACE ads and not reporting to authorities possible advertisement of illegal activities.

How is that different than what staff does here when editing content in ads or posts?

All shutting BP down does is force those they really want to crack down on to find other mediums to advertise on in the areas they are active. Like it or not many will find their way here.

Does anyone really think there were more than a handful across the country that woke up and thought... "Hmmm... Guess I ought to quit this now and go to work for Walmart". Originally Posted by Whispers

Walmart!
New place for you to troll?

Sad. I think we're all mostly smart enough to avoid underage and trafficked providers if we want to, and smart enough to find them if we do. I'm serious in doing the former and serious about avoiding those who do the latter. The hobby is full of earnest folk. Closing down BP does little to make bad things right.