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"Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today that his office’s prosecution of Backpage.com has resulted in the company pleading guilty to human trafficking in Texas and its CEO Carl Ferrer pleading guilty to money laundering. This comes less than a week after the attorney general’s office assisted the Department of Justice with permanently shutting down the website.
Ferrer will be sentenced to up to five years in prison once he’s fulfilled the terms of his plea agreement with Attorney General Paxton’s office. His cooperation in the ongoing investigation into Backpage could lead to other criminal charges against individuals associated with the company."
Looks like the CEO took a plea bargain deal. They probably threatened him with more legal action than he could ever deal with if he didn't. He'll probably serve less than the allotted five years when all is said and done.
"Human trafficking" charges are now what they hit men with for any facilitation of prostitution. It's a bigger-sounding word -- and a much bigger charge.
The Feds, I assume, wanted to seize Backpage's assets. Plus, John and Cindy McCain were very involved in getting FOSTA/SESTA passed and apparently held a vendetta against the owners. They previously ran an investigative site called Front Page Confidential that did hit pieces on McCain.
Anyone thinking that this marks the end of this should think again. There is a crazed pack of "abolitionists" who are looking for the next battle. According to what I've read on Twitter, they're coming for the porn sites next. Porn sites facilitate prostitution, after all, since the women are being paid to have sex.
As of this writing, the following sites have gone dark: Backpage.com, USA Sex Guide, The Erotic Review, and the "theraputic" massage section of Craigslist. These sites have been around for decades -- but "trafficking" only apparently became a major concern recently.
Why were they oblivious to this in, say, 2004? Could it be that the gov't is inventing the problem, possibly for financial motives? I'd say yes. I don't pretend to know what's really behind this, but the paltry actual number of women truly "trafficked" (as opposed to voluntarily hooking) makes me think there is an ulterior motive here.
#metoo has come back to bite feminists in the ass. While #metoo didn't directly affect the passing of SESTA, it created massive paranoia about sex and the sexual abuse of women by men. It whipped up hysteria and that's why so many politicians climbed on board to sign it.
Now the feminists are bemoaning all the sex workers who have to take to the dangerous streets to earn a living, since they can't screen clients online. Twitter is already reporting one missing sex worker.
Moral: If you don't want grand, sweeping legislation passed that assumes all men are "sexual predators" ready to exploit women, then maybe you shouldn't foster online movements that claim men are predators.
The demi monde is often a bellwether for mainstream society. If feminists are crying over #metoo wrecking the business of "women of the night," wait till they see what it's going to do women in the mainstream in the coming months and years. Thanks to #metoo, women have made themselves into human kryptonite -- and will find themselves out of more and more jobs, because of both paranoia and misguided "good intentions."
"Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today that his office’s prosecution of Backpage.com has resulted in the company pleading guilty to human trafficking in Texas and its CEO Carl Ferrer pleading guilty to money laundering. This comes less than a week after the attorney general’s office assisted the Department of Justice with permanently shutting down the website.
Ferrer will be sentenced to up to five years in prison once he’s fulfilled the terms of his plea agreement with Attorney General Paxton’s office. His cooperation in the ongoing investigation into Backpage could lead to other criminal charges against individuals associated with the company."
Looks like the CEO took a plea bargain deal. They probably threatened him with more legal action than he could ever deal with if he didn't. He'll probably serve less than the allotted five years when all is said and done.
"Human trafficking" charges are now what they hit men with for any facilitation of prostitution. It's a bigger-sounding word -- and a much bigger charge.
The Feds, I assume, wanted to seize Backpage's assets. Plus, John and Cindy McCain were very involved in getting FOSTA/SESTA passed and apparently held a vendetta against the owners. They previously ran an investigative site called Front Page Confidential that did hit pieces on McCain.
Anyone thinking that this marks the end of this should think again. There is a crazed pack of "abolitionists" who are looking for the next battle. According to what I've read on Twitter, they're coming for the porn sites next. Porn sites facilitate prostitution, after all, since the women are being paid to have sex.
As of this writing, the following sites have gone dark: Backpage.com, USA Sex Guide, The Erotic Review, and the "theraputic" massage section of Craigslist. These sites have been around for decades -- but "trafficking" only apparently became a major concern recently.
Why were they oblivious to this in, say, 2004? Could it be that the gov't is inventing the problem, possibly for financial motives? I'd say yes. I don't pretend to know what's really behind this, but the paltry actual number of women truly "trafficked" (as opposed to voluntarily hooking) makes me think there is an ulterior motive here.
#metoo has come back to bite feminists in the ass. While #metoo didn't directly affect the passing of SESTA, it created massive paranoia about sex and the sexual abuse of women by men. It whipped up hysteria and that's why so many politicians climbed on board to sign it.
Now the feminists are bemoaning all the sex workers who have to take to the dangerous streets to earn a living, since they can't screen clients online. Twitter is already reporting one missing sex worker.
Moral: If you don't want grand, sweeping legislation passed that assumes all men are "sexual predators" ready to exploit women, then maybe you shouldn't foster online movements that claim men are predators.
The demi monde is often a bellwether for mainstream society. If feminists are crying over #metoo wrecking the business of "women of the night," wait till they see what it's going to do women in the mainstream in the coming months and years. Thanks to #metoo, women have made themselves into human kryptonite -- and will find themselves out of more and more jobs, because of both paranoia and misguided "good intentions."
