Breaking: Backpage Appears To Have Been Taken Down https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontgomery/backpage-service-disruption?utm_term=.qu3ZP8JWX … by @blakersdozenpic.twitter.com/7jKWl3fevA
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Note that the California and Texas AG's offices are cited in the online notice. Those offices were involved in the 2016 effort from Kamala Harris (w support from Ken Paxton) to charge Backpage's CEO:https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-criminal-charges-against-senior …
That case had significant difficulties — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/calif-files-new-charges-against-backpage-com-ceo-after-case-n699706 … — that involved repeated victories for Backpage:http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article168969032.html …
That, in turn, led to FOSTA/SESTA, which would add an exception into the Section 230 safe harbor provision for website operators, and which was passed by Congress — https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/sesta-sex-trafficking-act-craigslist-sex-workers?utm_term=.uexa9xVZ1#.lrJe2X49V … — but is yet to be signed by the president, per: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865/actions …pic.twitter.com/PRnAZ9Tg2L
JUST IN: Regarding Backpage, the website the federal government seized earlier today, a DOJ spokesperson says, "The Court has ruled that the case remains sealed and we have nothing to report today."https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontgomery/backpage-service-disruption?utm_term=.rjLVK46dR#.bd4a65MXW …
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