Comments on: Out of 93 charges, Backpage not hit with a Single Charge of Sex Trafficking https://mikesouth.com/legal/out-of-93-charges-backpage-not-hit-with-a-single-charge-of-sex-trafficking-23858/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:21:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: LurkingReader https://mikesouth.com/legal/out-of-93-charges-backpage-not-hit-with-a-single-charge-of-sex-trafficking-23858/#comment-32332 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 02:54:54 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=23858#comment-32332 Just read through all 61 pages of indictment, WOW!!!
This is the same stuff Eric Omuro (MyRedbook) pleaded guilty to.

This investigation goes back to 2008 with a decade of back and forth between Backpage and various enforcement agencies and NCMEC. Page 54/61 starts forfeiture lists of ten properties and 25 bank accounts plus 35 specific domains.

Two things stand out as red flags for the industry as a whole. First is the NCMEC dance including international age verification efforts. Second is the banking timelines in the indictment. This isn’t over and SESTA is going to give a lot of lawyers sleepless nights.

]]> By: Cosmo K. https://mikesouth.com/legal/out-of-93-charges-backpage-not-hit-with-a-single-charge-of-sex-trafficking-23858/#comment-32328 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:20:37 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=23858#comment-32328 This is ridiculous. The government is using SESTA to do whatever they want and ruin sex workers livelihood and kill the adult industry. Typical of what happens when Republicans are in the oval office and controlling Congress and the Senate.

]]> By: LurkingReader https://mikesouth.com/legal/out-of-93-charges-backpage-not-hit-with-a-single-charge-of-sex-trafficking-23858/#comment-32327 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:01:17 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=23858#comment-32327 These charges are not based on SESTA.

The California charges from 2016 were dismissed based on federal free speech issues. These are federal criminal charges the government thinks they can prove without the benefits of SESTA.

To me this case is proving just how real and tangible the Internet has become in our everyday lives. The Mann Act has survived since 1910 and it isn’t going away with the implementation of SESTA and neither is sex-trafficking.

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