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[12] [13] [14] They scattered to other sites as well, but Backpage, already number two in the classified ads market, received most of the post-Craigslist-era adult-content migrated listings. [15] Many of the same controversies regarding content moderation and adult advertising that plagued Craigslist would now target Backpage. [16]
A week before the attorneys general sent their joint-letter last month, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster noted in a blog post that Craigslist manually reviews each ad in the "adult services" listings ...
In 2004, Lacey and Larkin launched the website Backpage as an extension of the classified ads that had always run in the back of their newspapers (and most other newspapers).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Classified advertisements website Craigslist Inc. Logo used since 1995 Screenshot of the main page on January 26, 2008 Type of business Private Type of site Classifieds, forums Available in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Founded 1995 ; 30 years ago (1995 ...
The AGs and Craigslist agreed in 2008 that adult ads shouldn't be free, and that posters of the ads should have to pay by valid credit card. The theory behind the move was that criminals wouldn't ...
Over 200 men answered ads placed in Chicago area sex service classifieds for in depth interviews. Of these self-admitted "johns", 83% view buying sex as a form of addiction, 57% suspect that the women they paid were abused as children, and 40% said they are usually intoxicated when they purchase sex. [71]
In this case, Backpage banned explicit offers of sex for money (which is illegal in most of the U.S.) but allowed adults ads more generally, since plenty of forms of sex work are legal.
FOSTA-SESTA; Long title: A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230 of such Act does not prohibit the enforcement against providers and users of interactive computer services of Federal and State criminal and civil law relating to sexual exploitation of children or sex trafficking, and for other purposes.