Backpage.com shuts down after reports of FBI raid
Sleazy classified site Backpage.com was shut down Friday after the FBI raided the home of its co-founder, according to new reports.
Agents raided ex-owner Michael Lacey’s home, according to a local CBS affiliate — while users are sharing screenshots of a message saying it has been “seized” by the feds.
“backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division,” says the message shared by numerous sex workers across the US and Canada.
“Backpage has just been seized by the federal government and taken down. This is terrifying,” tweeted porn star Taste the Moon alongside the screengrab.
Others worried they won’t get money back from ads they’ve placed on the site, a popular marketplace for sex.
“So how much money do you think #backpage just stole from us? Thank you for getting rich off of us then kicking us while we’re down by changing the way we pay for ads, and pocketing our current balance,” wrote Miss Marla Moon.
Backpage has long been in the crosshairs of lawmakers, law enforcement and activist groups, who say its listings enable sex trafficking.
The Department of Justice and FBI didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
(NYPost)
upfront, you would thinck there is no justification to shutter the entire site, since they did take down the adult section over a year ago. what happened is that all the hookers just started posting in the personals and backpage didn't do anything about that.Gone next week unless they transform the site somehow. Maybe faggots like the Creeper will donate their inheritance to keep their lifetime PA to creep guys?
so they shot themselves in the foot.
as for this site, it appears they don't want no hooker ad's on the internet. could this site survive without any provider ad's and more importantly adult ad revenue and be just a discussion broad?
probably not.
the only advantage ECC has is they aren't really a big well known site like backpage was. they might be able to fly under the radar. we'll see.
regardless of what the moral morons say, there is no large scale sex trafficking.
so they want to take down all hooker ad's for maybe 10 percent who aren't in the biz by their own choice. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
Donald Trumps FBI hard at work!LMAO, I guess you haven't seen that all but one Dem and one R voted for it.Can you imagine the rhetoric if Trump dosn't sign it? If you think the liberals went nuts over free birth control they would really blow a gasket over this.
Trump signed into law what his religious base wanted.
Remains to be seen about eccie...
. Originally Posted by WTF
LMAO, I guess you haven't seen that all but one Dem and one R voted for it.Can you imagine the rhetoric if Trump dosn't sign it? If you think the liberals went nuts over free birth control they would really blow a gasket over this. Originally Posted by goodolboy