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Let's say we take your comment at face value, the law written to specifically target them was pretty poorly written and had wide ranging impacts. There were already ways for the government to take down Backpage if what you're saying is true, they should have taken those actions. What the law did was remove safe harbors protections for all websites to target one specific website, that's overreach. I'm not a fan of useless laws, I'm even more against laws that are harmful. Quite frankly the law didn't help stop child trafficking, and that's even more a problem. So what happened? The sites moved outside of the U.S., policing became harder, and even more children are victimized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/backpage-ads-sex-traff...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/after-the-closure-of...

https://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-pol-sex-trafficking-b...




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