[QUOTE=Rescue;3793288]Backpage use to be an awesome site with good information provided by the advertisers. I want to know what they offer and what they are willing to do. Than it just went to phone numbers. I want to read in between the lines. For example a girl could say that she is a goddess, that you are lucky to have me. Or they may say I am here for a short time, catch me when you still have a chance. These girls will have GPS issues. The more direct would be I don't do BB services or say something against time wasters don't contact me. Their was no way I am going to waste time and money on these girls.[/QUOTE]Yes, but what you want- a description or inferences to sex acts and of course rates is illegal (prostitution) everywhere in the USA except for select counties in NV. The problem with BP was IMHO that they allowed trafficking and under aged stuff when they could have implemented procedures to eliminate such from their site.
[QUOTE=Rescue;3793288]When the site was seized it basically put it out of it's misery. Many (not all) of the advertisers were just not very good. I think the government did me a big favor. I have had far better service with the sister site. Now I only need to go to one site. Plenty of information is provided with pics and you have this site for their reviews. I love it when the advertiser thanks the client for their review. It tells me allot about the girl. That she really cares in what she is doing.
[URL]http://usaadultclassifieds.info/classifieds/[/URL][/QUOTE]The changes made in the site, to go to pictures and phone numbers only was BP's last ditch attempt to avoid prosecution. After all how could one prove a picture and a phone number is an offer for prostitution? But it was too little too late. As the indictment doc lays out:
In January 2017 A Senate subcommittee issued a report [B]"Backpage.com's Knowing Facilitation of Online Sex Trafficking."[/B] [I] Backpage has maintained a practice of altering ads before publication by deleting words, phrases and images indicative of the criminality, including child sex trafficking[/I] In response, BP shut down the adult section of its website but allowed the traffic to migrate to other sections.
As I laid out here:
[URL]http://www.usasexguide.info/forum/showthread.php?21890-Delaware-Douchebaggery[/URL]!&p=3797558&viewfull=1#post3797558.
BP had many opportunities to alter its business to get the worst stuff removed and be protective of women from trafficking and under aged stuff, but appears to have consistently turned a blind eye. It sure appears as thought the passage of this law was the only way to get these guys to stop.
Now not sure how the new law effects other sites? I guess if they do age verification on girls advertising, take steps to prohibit and report when found incidences of trafficking, that they might survive? But clearly prostitution is still illegal in most of the USA (except a select few counties in NV) so perhaps zealous prosecutors us SEST-FOSTA to shut those sites down. However, many of the remaining sites are hosted offshore (out side of the USA) so it is not clear how the law might apply (or NOT) to them.
I think many have gotten lulled into a false sense of security with the ubiquity of escort adverts on the internet of recent. Time will tell how this plays out.
