Its one of the rare things feminists and statist conservatives both hate. Statist conservatives because they want to enforce no sex outside of marriage on the whole community and feminists because they want to close down as many choices men have for sex as possible since it will increase the power women have over men.
Personally I feel if backpage has actually knowingly allowed or aided specific crimes they should be punished but so far I haven’t seen any evidence of this. But they shouldn’t be punished simply because it allows random hookups others don’t like or because theres some bad apples abusing it anymore than FR should be shut down if one person on it turns out to be crazy. Not going to cheer government extending control over the internet.
I have seen some odd comments on this site in 20 years but yours really needs no explanation of what you are essentially saying.
Guess you will have to explore other options
Totally agree but the Taliban wing of FR says otherwise
100%
Exactly my sentiments. This has little to do with “sex trafficing.” It’s al about control.
It seems to me that over the past decade or so the business of prostitution has been rebranded with the far more sinister-sounding label "sex trafficking" and with it the implication that all the women involved are "sex slaves" forced into it against their will and all the men who use prostitutes are deviant predators. The truth, of course, is often different. Most women know exactly what business they are getting involved in and men have been using prostitutes for a thousand different reasons since the beginning of time.
Not going to cheer government extending control over the internet.
As long as prostitution remains illegal, the government can't get their cut. As such, they can't allow businesses like backpage.com to make money off of it.