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The controversy over Backpage.com's escort service ads and their link to child sex trafficking is traveling through the state and federal courts, the financial services industry, and the court of public opinion.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Senate vote was the first time it has issued contempt charges since 1995.
Backpage.com says it's not responsible for how third parties use their website.
If this is the "Stonewall" of sex work, let it not be the aftermath of Stonewall where a privileged minority colonizes and benefits off the work of society's "others."
The message from the federal government has largely been a threat to the lives and livelihood of US citizens, who are, it must be said, under the law, criminals.
