Backpage ends adult content

[dutch12]

Backpage has officially blocked all adult content from their website due to a government order. RIP backpage...

Originally posted in Mens' Room but really belongs here... sorry for the double post

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Press Release: Backpage.com Removes Adult Content Due to Unconstitutional Government Censorship....Vows to Fight First Amendment Battles

January 9, 2017

Washington, D.C. - As the direct result of unconstitutional government censorship, Backpage.com has removed its Adult content section from the highly popular classified website, effective immediately. For years, the legal system protecting freedom of speech prevailed, but new government tactics, including pressuring credit card companies to cease doing business with Backpage, have left the company with no other choice but to remove the content in the United States.

As federal appeals court Judge Richard Posner has described, the goal is either to “suffocate” Backpage out of existence or use the awesome powers of the government to force Backpage to follow in the footsteps of Craigslist and abandon its Adult advertising section. Judge Posner described such tactics as “a formula for permitting unauthorized, unregulated, foolproof, lawless government coercion.”

“It's a sad day for America's children victimized by prostitution,” said Dr. Lois Lee, Founder and President, Children of the Night, a leading national hotline and shelter program for victims of sex trafficking based in Los Angeles. “Backpage.com was a critical investigative tool depended on by America's vice detectives and agents in the field to locate and recover missing children and to arrest and successfully prosecute the pimps who prostitute children.” She added, “The ability to search for and track potentially exploited children on a website and have the website bend over backwards to help and cooperate with police the way Backpage did was totally unique. It not only made law enforcement's job easier, it made them much more effective at rescuing kids and convicting pimps.”

Backpage.com was created thirteen years ago by Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey, through their newspaper company, New Times Media, to compete with Craigslist, the nation’s largest online classified ad platform. Larkin and Lacey were pioneers in independent journalism, establishing Village Voice Media in 1970 to provide alternative news coverage of the Vietnam war and later served as editor and publisher of twenty weekly newspapers.

As The Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have observed, the Senate subcommittee has engaged in an “invasive, burdensome inquiry into Backpage.com’s editorial practices [that] creates an intense chilling effect, not only for Backpage but for any website operator seeking to define their own editorial viewpoint and moderation procedures for the third-party content they host.”

This will not end the fight for online freedom of speech. Backpage.com will continue to pursue its efforts in court to vindicate its First Amendment rights and those of other online platforms for third party expression.

[JONBALLS]

that craigslist flagger is going to be on overload

[mcgraw69]

They are posting now in dating women seeking men

http://buffalo.backpage.com/WomenSee...layout=gallery

[wotbaby]

I'll be checking out the dating section of backpage. I also still have access to a few phone numbers of girls in Binghamton I haven't yet seen but wanted to see.

Before Backpage became popular, Cityvibe was another site that was gaining traction. It lost to Backpage, though, like HD DVDs did to Blueray. But if the everyone starts flocking to Cityvibe, I hope they re-add the Binghamton section because it doesn't exist anymore.

[Luvbubbles]

Well, it could not access the site, so it will be interesting how the sp's will ply their trade. Creativity will come into play here.

[normale]

This may have a negative affect on this site as women who are untrustworthy and scammers may start using this site as an alternative along with their pimps.

[Guest072118]

Backpage owns lots of escort sites, we all move to the next in the search engine. Most of our BP ads are already listed because they are part of BP...

Skipthegames.com is next on the list in Syracuse.

[Amber Does]

Originally Posted by normale

This may have a negative affect on this site as women who are untrustworthy and scammers may start using this site as an alternative along with their pimps.

Yup. 😑

[dutch12]

Originally Posted by normale

This may have a negative affect on this site as women who are untrustworthy and scammers may start using this site as an alternative along with their pimps.

I was thinking the same thing. Then, how long until the government comes for this site too...

[dlm993]

This is a big blow to finding good deals.. I always enjoyed backpage.. even if a majority of them were duds

[BishopJohn]

After reading a bit more, it looks like BP shut itself down on the eve of the owners having to testify in front of a Senate committee. No government order was given.

[jokacz]

Canadian BP still works

[jokacz]

Originally Posted by BishopJohn

After reading a bit more, it looks like BP shut itself down on the eve of the owners having to testify in front of a Republican Senate committee. No government order was given.

FIFY

[Gotyour6]

No more of the 50 year old red head lol

[Sam54]

It's like trying to get rid of bedbugs by changing the sheets! lol