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Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:42 pm**

Taken down after FBI raid.

Hilarious that porn stars/hookers are furious.

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:54 pm**

Thank goodness we lost a little more freedom, today.

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:07 pm**

From how they're describing it, the FBI didn't shut down backpage. The backpage people did.

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:09 pm**

Not according to backpage.com.

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:37 pm**

Why are the hookers blaming backpage?

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:38 pm**

Not really sure.

Posted: **Sat Apr 07, 2018 12:56 am**

Not knowing anything about backpage or the legality of the transactions occurring:

I gathered it was a way to arrange for paid sex. Which, except for a very few locations, is illegal. And since I also believe there are a LOT of people in the sex industry that are there against their will, I don't see how we lost any freedoms here. You weren't free to do any of the stuff being sold there to begin with. So, they shut down the site enabling illegal activities? And made it that much harder for people to profit from sex trafficking.

Posted: **Sat Apr 07, 2018 8:32 am**

First craigslist personals, now this. Damn Trump.

Posted: **Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:07 am**

This is going to increase the number of pimps, which things like Backpage had reduced.

Posted: **Sat Apr 07, 2018 12:18 pm**

Cakedaddy wrote: Which, except for a very few locations, is illegal. And since I also believe there are a LOT of people in the sex industry that are there against their will, I don't see how we lost any freedoms here. You weren't free to do any of the stuff being sold there to begin with.

But they should have been free to do it.

Posted: **Sat Apr 07, 2018 12:45 pm**

TheCatt wrote:
Cakedaddy wrote: Which, except for a very few locations, is illegal. And since I also believe there are a LOT of people in the sex industry that are there against their will, I don't see how we lost any freedoms here. You weren't free to do any of the stuff being sold there to begin with.
But they should have been free to do it.

I'm all for ending sex trafficking. I'm not for making something illegal that's in high demand, you can give away for free, and you can charge for, but only if you let someone film it.

Posted: **Sat Apr 07, 2018 5:11 pm**

I'm not for making something illegal that's in high demand, you can give away for free, and you can charge for, but only if you let someone film it.

Yes, insanity. Legalize ita ll

Posted: **Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:16 am**

Ok, but it's not legal right now. So the freedom was already not there. The site going down didn't take any freedom away. Whether prostitution should be legal or not is irrelevant when measuring the amount of freedom that was lost when that page went down.