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Monday, 9 April 2018
quote [ Seven top officials of the website Backpage.com, long accused of facilitating child sex trafficking, have been arrested after a grand jury in Phoenix issued a 93-count indictment alleging conspiracy and money laundering, and the government on Friday seized all of Backpage’s websites around the world. ]
I don't know why you'd run something like this within reach of America™.
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Taxman said @ 6:30pm GMT on 17th April
If you rob a bank, your getaway car is an illegal facilitation vehicle. You don’t have the right to use a car to escape custody after commuting a crime. When we catch you, you lose that car. It becomes property of the government. Doesn’t matter if you used it legally every other day, you use it for crime, poof. We don’t punish Ford just because that was your choice of vehicle make. We don’t go after tire manufacturers because the whole thing doesn’t work without them. It’s about degrees.
In Backpage’s case, you weren't even using it legally every other day. The prostitution via classifieds was ignored, overlooked, call it what you want. Then children came into play, then money came into play, then the actively hiding the child predators came into play, then the money laundering just started to make a mockery of the whole thing. Enough is enough.
The CEO earned 153 million LAST YEAR, if he was innocent, he could have afforded to fight it. If you cut a deal as a rich man, you know you done fucked up.
That is not how the word ‘literally’ works.
Getting away with an illegal action in the past is not a justification to allow illegal actions in the future. No one has said classifieds are illegal in and of themselves. When you trade money for sexual services, IN A CLASSIFIED, unfortunately, that is illegal. Try pulling that shit with children and we’ll take your ‘car’ away entirely.
Taxman said @ 6:31pm GMT on 17th April
If you rob a bank, your getaway car is an illegal facilitation vehicle. You don’t have the right to use a car to escape custody after commiting a crime. When we catch you, you lose that car. It becomes property of the government. Doesn’t matter if you used it legally every other day, you use it for crime, poof. We don’t punish Ford just because that was your choice of vehicle make. We don’t go after tire manufacturers because the whole thing doesn’t work without them. It’s about degrees.
In Backpage’s case, you weren't even using it legally every other day. The prostitution via classifieds was ignored, overlooked, call it what you want. Then children came into play, then money came into play, then the actively hiding the child predators came into play, then the money laundering just started to make a mockery of the whole thing. Enough is enough.
The CEO earned 153 million LAST YEAR, if he was innocent, he could have afforded to fight it. If you cut a deal as a rich man, you know you done fucked up.
That is not how the word ‘literally’ works.
Getting away with an illegal action in the past is not a justification to allow illegal actions in the future. No one has said classifieds are illegal in and of themselves. When you trade money for sexual services, IN A CLASSIFIED, unfortunately, that is illegal. Try pulling that shit with children and we’ll take your ‘car’ away entirely.
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Taxman said @ 6:30pm GMT on 17th April
If you rob a bank, your getaway car is an illegal facilitation vehicle. You don’t have the right to use a car to escape custody after commiting a crime. When we catch you, you lose that car. It becomes property of the government. Doesn’t matter if you used it legally every other day, you use it for crime, poof. We don’t punish Ford just because that was your choice of vehicle make. We don’t go after tire manufacturers because the whole thing doesn’t work without them. It’s about degrees.
In Backpage’s case, you weren't even using it legally every other day. The prostitution via classifieds was ignored, overlooked, call it what you want. Then children came into play, then money came into play, then the actively hiding the child predators came into play, then the money laundering just started to make a mockery of the whole thing. Enough is enough.
The CEO earned 153 million LAST YEAR, if he was innocent, he could have afforded to fight it. If you cut a deal as a rich man, you know you done fucked up.
That is not how the word ‘literally’ works.
Getting away with an illegal action in the past is not a justification to allow illegal actions in the future. No one has said classifieds are illegal in and of themselves. When you trade money for sexual services, IN A CLASSIFIED, unfortunately, that is illegal. Try pulling that shit with children and we’ll take your ‘car’ away entirely.
