Law Backpage has been seized

https://archive.is/wReed

We have just lost cabin pressure.

Backpage was seized because the Communications Decency Act was amended to allow LEO to pierce the veil and come after hosts and services when users had broken the law. This may seem trivial, but the CDA's safe harbor provisions is what enables every site that exists and allows user-generated content to be self-published.

4chan? At risk. 8chan? At risk.
Encyclopedia Dramatica? At risk. Kiwi Farms? At risk. Every other web forum? At risk.
Facebook, Google Plus, YouTube, Twitter, Gab? At risk.

If the CDA continues down this path we will see our largest export (culture and technology) be swiftly transplanted to other countries with safe harbor provisions.

 

[An Ghost]

The US government is killing transwomen who survive on sex work by destroying their support network.

And I love it.

 

[multiverse]

Goddamn. Child exploitation is ine thing, but OBSCENITY? Is this the 50s? Is Hoover back at the FBI?

 

[Racist Trash]

I originally read it as backpack.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

Can someone break this down Barney style for me?

I dunno why this is news and I'm scared.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

It was all well and good when they were just trafficking children, but did they have to be so obscene?!

 

[frozenrunner]

Goddamn. Child exploitation is ine thing, but OBSCENITY? Is this the 50s? Is Hoover back at the FBI?

Ignore that. Think of the children!

 

[Curt Sibling]

Lizards have made their checkmate move.

 

[Tookie]

How will Chris ever get china now?

This will all end up being counterproductive to their stated purpose. Backpage at least offered a degree of cooperation with local police when there were actual cases of trafficking or child prostitution under investigation. It will be replaced (probably within weeks) by a new site based out of Moldova or on a Tor hidden site that will offer no cooperation and be beyond their reach. Hong Kong tried this years ago and the ad sites all just "loled" and cropped up two weeks later on offshore servers.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Ignore that. Think of the children!

Sounds like that was their problem.

 

[pickleparty]

This almost makes me want to reveal my powerlevel not because of the sexshit, it's because it's easier to use than Craigslist. It's going to be be harder for me to get the used local shit i want.

 

[BV 937]

And nothing of value was lost

 

[Null]

Can someone break this down Barney style for me?

I dunno why this is news and I'm scared.

Backpage was seized because the Communications Decency Act was amended to allow LEO to pierce the veil and come after hosts and services when users had broken the law. This may seem trivial, but the CDA's safe harbor provisions is what enables every site that exists and allows user-generated content to be self-published.

4chan? At risk. 8chan? At risk.
Encyclopedia Dramatica? At risk. Kiwi Farms? At risk. Every other web forum? At risk.
Facebook, Google Plus, YouTube, Twitter, Gab? At risk.

If the CDA continues down this path we will see our largest export (culture and technology) be swiftly transplanted to other countries with safe harbor provisions.

 

[odius]

I spent many an evening looking at 300lb+ 30 something black crack whores on my city's backpage. RIP in piece

 

[millais]

Thot Status : P A T R O L L E D

 

[BV 937]

Backpage was seized because the Communications Decency Act was amended to allow LEO to pierce the veil and come after hosts and services when users had broken the law. This may seem trivial, but the CDA's safe harbor provisions is what enables every site that exists and allows user-generated content to be self-published.

4chan? At risk. 8chan? At risk.
Encyclopedia Dramatica? At risk. Kiwi Farms? At risk. Every other web forum? At risk.
Facebook, Google Plus, YouTube, Twitter, Gab? At risk.

If the CDA continues down this path we will see our largest export (culture and technology) be swiftly transplanted to other countries with safe harbor provisions.

Now, I don't know the full story, and I get where you are coming from, but if Children where being actively exploited on the site and the admins did nothing in their power to stop it I can't really be upset about this.

 

[Zaragoza]

They can't keep getting away with this!

 

[m0rnutz]

Fuck you, FBI. Fuck. You.

By all means ban the hookers, but don't do anything about child porn that's right there on the deep web, without even having to dig.

 

[AJ 447]

The feds also raided the home of Michael Lacey, Backpage's founder.

Site executives say they are protected by the Communications Decency Act which regulates pornographic material on the internet. Executives argue that the law states internet publishers cannot be held liable for content created by third parties.

But investigators say the site lost that protection when they alerted posters to key terms related to child sex trafficking. Investigators found proof of these alerts in internal Backpage.com documents.

The site even gave the third party posters a chance to rephrase their ads so they wouldn't be flagged for child sex trafficking. Some of the terms Backpage.com admins told posters not to use include "Lolita," young, teenager and even "Amber Alert."

http://www.azfamily.com/story/37898603/fbi-raids-sedona-home-of-backpagecom-founder-michael-lacey

 

[Flopwop]

Some bitch named Maria Mint owes me a refund.