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re: Is Blocking A Site From Providing Escort Ads Unconstitutional?
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:14 pm to saintsfan22
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:14 pm to saintsfan22
I wish people knew what the First Amendment actually meant. A private business deciding not to run ads that promote illegal activity isn't a violation of the First Amendment. Just like the First Amendment doesn't keep Twitter from banning your arse if you post super obnoxious shite and it doesn't keep your boss from canning your arse if you post super obnoxious shite on Twitter.
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:25 pm to OweO
You could make the argument by knowingly allowing prostitutes to place ads they were part of a conspiracy to commit an illegal act.
Just like if you knowingly provided a service for people to post ads for murder for hire...you could be arrested as part of that conspiracy.
Just like if you knowingly provided a service for people to post ads for murder for hire...you could be arrested as part of that conspiracy.
This post was edited on 1/16/17 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:36 pm to timbo
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I wish people knew what the First Amendment actually meant. A private business deciding not to run ads that promote illegal activity isn't a violation of the First Amendment.
Backpage.com shuts down adult services ads after relentless pressure from authorities
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:36 pm to theenemy
I honestly think it was less anout prostitution than it was human traffickiing. I'm probably legalized prostitution but shut that human trafficking shite down. I'd love for them to legalize and use the tax money to increase sex ed in schools and fight trafficking.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:37 pm to timbo
Nothing illegal about providing a donation to a woman for a date. What she chooses to do with you on that date is up to her.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:42 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Nothing illegal about providing a donation to a woman for a date. What she chooses to do with you on that date is up to her.
Go ahead and try to argue that in court.
You are going to be sadly disappointed.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:42 pm to Brosef Stalin
You're donating "roses". Just make sure you know how many roses she likes or it won't go well for you.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:43 pm to saintsfan22
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If you want a hooker go to the dating section, they all moved there
Y'all mothafrickas need Jesus
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:44 pm to Cole Beer
Ya'll nasty.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:46 pm to theenemy
Also completely legal to pay someone for adult modeling. Or just film it and call it a porno.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:47 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Also completely legal to pay someone for adult modeling. Or just film it and call it a porno.
I just say "I'd like to take you out to dinner and a movie. First you have to blow me though, and then you can go by yourself"
Posted on 1/16/17 at 2:48 pm to timbo
Trafficking in minors and foreigners for any labor is terrible and wrong. Having said that, a consenting adult not being able to offer sex acts for a price is beyond comprehension. Especially in a country where porn is legal.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 3:01 pm to DAbully
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Trafficking in minors and foreigners for any labor is terrible and wrong. Having said that, a consenting adult not being able to offer sex acts for a price is beyond comprehension. Especially in a country where porn is legal.
This.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 3:31 pm to OweO
Because they're allowing ads for blatantly illegal services and basically had an entire section of the site dedicated to ads for an illegal service. I don't know how they got away with posting those ads for as long as they did. Government is probably threatening Backpage with being charged as an accessory to prostitution or human trafficking for hosting the ads.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 3:42 pm to Tiger Prawn
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Government is probably threatening Backpage with being charged as an accessory to prostitution or human trafficking for hosting the ads.
I don't know if all of what they say is true but supposedly this was an invaluable tool for law enforcement to catch child predators and traffickers all the while letting lonely men get their jollies off with the consenting adults. Seemed like a win win.
And for anyone thinking this could stop illegal activity has no sense of supply and demand. If there is a demand for it, there will always be someone supplying it. So shutting it down just sends it deeper underground and harder for authorities to catch up.
Does anyone honestly think pedophile Pete gives up looking for kiddie escorts bc big brother blocked his favorite site?
Posted on 1/16/17 at 3:44 pm to Upperdecker
Plank is not what it used to be.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 3:46 pm to OweO
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Is Blocking A Site From Providing Escort Ads Unconstitutional
I suppose you could try to are an argument if that website is run and operated by the US Government and it places an undue burden or discrimination on prostitution which you would also have to prove is a protected industry.
However a private site can pretty much do whatever it wants.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 3:46 pm to Tiger Prawn
What is the difference between these adds and the ones in marijuana magenzines? They have advertisements for seeds that are illegal in most states. I can go to any book store in Louisiana and find 15 marijuana magazines with hundreds of "illegal" advertisements in each.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 4:00 pm to Mitcher8
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What is the difference between these adds and the ones in marijuana magenzines? They have advertisements for seeds that are illegal in most states. I can go to any book store in Louisiana and find 15 marijuana magazines with hundreds of "illegal" advertisements in each.
Never picked up a marijuana magazine, so not really sure what ads they have. But if someone posted an ad in the For Sale section of Craigslist for an ounce of weed, it wouldn't be up there long before CL removed it.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 4:14 pm to Mitcher8
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What is the difference between these adds and the ones in marijuana magenzines? They have advertisements for seeds that are illegal in most states. I can go to any book store in Louisiana and find 15 marijuana magazines with hundreds of "illegal" advertisements in each.
I believe with the magazine they can argue that the magazine is sold in places where marijuana is legal and that their ads are targeted to those geographics and only sales in those areas are permitted.
Whereas, Backpage is facilitating illegal activities in areas that it is expressly forbidden by law.
This post was edited on 1/16/17 at 4:14 pm
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