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The unsealed indictment lays out details concerning 17 alleged victims, including adults & minors as young as 14 years old, who were trafficked on the site. Backpage.com founders, five others ...
The government further wanted to bar the defense from talking about how state attorneys general urged online classifieds to charge money for adult ads (which Backpage did not do at first), or from ...
Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and fined $3 million for a single money laundering count in a sprawling case ...
To staunch the bleeding, in 2004 New Times created Backpage.com, the brainstorm of then-ad exec and future Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer. Like Craigslist, Backpage featured categories where people could post ads for help, wanted, car and home sales, rooms to let, antique sales, and so on.
Backpage was a classified advertising website founded in 2004 by the alternative newspaper chain New Times Inc./New Times Media (later known as Village Voice Media or VVM) as a rival to Craigslist. [1] Similar to Craigslist, Backpage let users post ads to categories such as personals, automotive, rentals, jobs and adult services. It soon became ...
Thomas Dart, Sheriff of Cook County v. Craigslist, Inc., 665 F. Supp. 2d 961 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 20, 2009), is a decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in which the court held that Craigslist, as an Internet service provider, was immune from wrongs committed by their users under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA).
After five weeks, the trial of Backpage.com executives in Phoenix is nearly over. On Friday, federal prosecutors finished their closing arguments against leaders of the defunct classified ad site ...
Certainly Craigslist personals is worth mentioning (as it did compete with Backpage), but as a lot of the controversy surrounding it is already covered on the Craigslist Wikipedia page. It shouldn't be the focus of the article like it is right now Griffn29 ( talk ) 22:21, 19 June 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]