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I searched for MSM coverage. Most of the google listings for the search term CityXguide on the first 2 pages of results were for porn sites.

I was surprised to see an article  via CBS. Better still, it specifically identifies child sex trafficking as a key activity for CityXguide and that it was a replacement for BackPage.com.

Feds take down sites that replaced prostitution and child sex trafficking portal Backpage.com

By Clare Hymes

June 19, 2020 / 3:11 PM / CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/backpage-replacement-cityxguide-taken-down-federal-prosecutors/

"CityXGuide listed 14 "Favorite Cities," including Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, and Boston. All 14 cities ban prostitution, so Martono would try to cover up the money trail by using bitcoin or a third-party gift card reseller called CardCash. Advertisers would pay in gift cards from places like BestBuy, Walmart, Amazon, Lowes and others, and he then exchanged them, funneling the money into personal bank accounts."

On page 2 of the search results, I see that NYDaily news also had an article on it.

1 posted on 07/12/2020 7:41:04 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
Awww.....Did they go and shutdown slick willies very favorite website??
That's a shame.....
2 posted on 07/12/2020 7:44:10 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: ransomnote

“An indictment is merely an allegation of criminal conduct, not evidence. Like all defendants, Mr. Martono is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.”

Got it, pimps, child molesters, ‘Net scammers are all presumed innocent.
But the cops involved in the death of a Black druggy thug are know to be guilty without any need of an actual trial.


3 posted on 07/12/2020 7:57:20 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Unconstitutional "Law" is void from inception.....)
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To: ransomnote

Whatever you think of prostitution it is gallingly hypocritical for the government to spend so much time and energy persecuting it FOR THE CHILDREN while we throw parades for drag queen library readings and sex reassignment surgery for minors. If we say we don’t care what two consenting adults do with each other we should mean it. Even for a heterosexual male schlub looking to pay a hooker. Crimes against minors should be handled just like crimes in online forums and elsewhere are handled. Go after the perpetrator, not use it as an excuse to shut down the entire place. If someone sold their daughter on facebook they would arrest that person not shut down all of facebook. Frankly I think they are exaggerating the sex trafficking angle which is far better handled by policing border and not as part of an antisex crusade.


4 posted on 07/12/2020 8:02:18 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: ransomnote

So that’s what happened to it.


6 posted on 07/12/2020 8:13:16 PM PDT by moovova
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7 posted on 07/12/2020 8:18:04 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: ransomnote

Most of the prostitutes are not capable of real consent, because the criminals who own them have them addicted to drugs. Many of them are first introduced to drugs by way of tainted drinks. Drug dealers and pimps should get the death penalty.


10 posted on 07/12/2020 9:43:14 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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