Posted on 03/26/2014 6:17:34 PM PDT by kingattax
21-year-old Dallas Miller received an awkward email from her friend. The White Creek, Tennessee resident was told that her face was showing up in advertisements on Backpage.com for prostitution.
As WKRN ABC News 2 reports, there are some problems with this: 1) Dallas isn’t a prostitute. 2) She never gave her permission to have her pictures used in ads for prostitution, because, as I just mentioned, she isn’t a prostitute.
Dallas’ pictures show up in an ad that, in part, reads, “best time of your life 100% guaranteed satisfaction [phone number redacted] OUTCALL ONLY – 21.” Ms. Miller told WKRN, “Even my price ranges were listed on there…” The pictures are directly from Dallas’ Facebook account. She told the station that they were taken as part of a benefit for abused children.
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2nd rule of facebook - don’t take a selfie in the bathroom unless you made sure to flush first.
(some of you have seen that pic)
It isn’t just Facebook, people in all industry (department stores, billboard advertising, journalism, and more) are stealing people’s photos from flickr, photobucket, twitter, instagram, and more putting them to commercial use.
And it’s isn’t just backpage.com. It’s Getty, it’s major department stores, it’s art schools. People who “should know better”.
Until each of the major violators is hit with multimillion dollar fines per violation, they will continue their copyright plunder.
Backpage.com used to be owned by Village Voice Media. They have sex ads (and possibly other things). Village Voice still receiving paid advertising from the now divested company.
Village Voice was forced to “distance” (but not shun) Backpage.com because of repeated instances of underaged and trafficked women being solicited in the newspaper (and I suppose website) ads.
Such advertising funds the “alternative weekly” left wing tabloids you can find in most major cities.
Would Laz hit it?
you are going to make me look, aren't you?
(Me thinking) what kind of spam am I going to get by looking at porno?
Now that is funny I don't care who you are!!!
There’s a reason that Harry Reid is from Nevada.
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