Just because Craigslist reacted to pressure and now Backpage will probably do the same, doesn't mean the problem is solved. Where one webpage will shutdown the opportunity, another will be found. As distasteful as the idea is, this 'level of advertising' has to be regulated. There really is no other way and makes the merchant profiting from the ads as liable as the advertiser. Money talks, othewise, the entire community to end this criminal content will be chasing themselves forever in a circle. Either a moral society can impose their standards for treatment of children to protect them from crime or it can't.
Sold on Craigslist: Critics say sex ad crackdown inadequate (click here)
August 03, 2010|By Steve Turnham and Amber Lyon, CNN Special Investigations Unit
On a late afternoon in early June, undercover police officers circled a one-story highway motel north of Washington. Inside was a 12-year-old girl who told her mother she was being forced to work as a prostitute.
According to her mother, the girl had started running away from home earlier this year. She found out her daughter was in the sex trade when she saw her in an adult online classified ad. The girl was advertising herself as a 24-year-old with a bogus name. The next time she ran away, her mother reported her missing....
An international effort can and should be mounted, but, guess what, the Third World doesn't have the monies available and now that the First World is in fiscal struggles those monies will not be forthcoming. The fact of the matter is human trafficking works as an income to many in the third world. It is a way of economy, including, ridding the family of a DEPENDENT.
An international effort can and should be mounted, but, guess what, the Third World doesn't have the monies available and now that the First World is in fiscal struggles those monies will not be forthcoming. The fact of the matter is human trafficking works as an income to many in the third world. It is a way of economy, including, ridding the family of a DEPENDENT.
The Backpage Backlash: Nicholas Kristof on ‘Egregious Capitalism’ at The Village Voice (click here)
By 3/27 2:39pm
...In a pair of columns, Mr. Kristof criticized the online classifieds site for maintaining an adult services section, which—like Craigslist’s before it—serves as a virtual agora for prostitutes and their handlers. The more recent piece, published March 17, included a first-person account from “Alissa,” who was sold into sex on Backpage.com starting at age 16.
“Nicholas D. Kristof was wrong about the most devastating ‘fact’ in his Sunday, March 18th, column in The New York Times,” the Village Voice wrote four days later. “According to Alissa’s court testimony, she was 16 in 2003. Backpage.com did not exist anywhere in America in 2003.”...
Unless there are supports to the Third World to facilitate a 'real economy' this will be impossible to stop. The ravages of the Third World have been profound including now the burden of the Climate Crisis that was never their problem in the first place. The human economy of the Third World is just as real as its starvation and drought. How is any country suppose to create a real economy for its people when it is chronically ravaged by First World sins?
Where is THAT morality written into the US Constitution, where Americans are required to address the problems they cause other nations in its consumer habits?
Where is THAT morality written into the US Constitution, where Americans are required to address the problems they cause other nations in its consumer habits?
