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Jurors at the criminal trial of a founder of the classified site Backpage.com heard opposite views in closing arguments of whether the founder knew there were ads for prostitution on the site.
The new indictment focused on 50 distinct adult ads culled from the millions of adult and non-adult ads that ran on the site daily, and the indictment used the fact that Backpage had worked with law enforcement to show that Backpage's executives were aware of illegal content on the site.
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 ...
The Right Stuff is a dating service in New Jersey, in business since 1993. [1] [2] Membership is international, and limited to single students, graduates, and faculty, of medical schools, [3] and of select universities and colleges. [1]
The first online dating service was founded by Joan Ball in 1964. Operation Match, begun in 1965, was the first online dating service in the United States. These services involved questionnaires and computer matching. Match.com in 1995 was one of the first sites to host personal ads online. At the time, few people had computer access.
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 ...
Each month, Backpage blocks about a million ads, mostly suspected of child sex trafficking or prostitution. Of those, around 400 ads a month are sent to the NCMEC which in turn alerts law enforcement. [80] [81] The NCMEC say these efforts are inadequate and that Backpage encourages dissemination of child sex trafficking content on its website. [74]
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.