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A comment on Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time. Parent comment

Re:Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time by pharrington on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:29PM (#17814011)
You are adding speculation about claims no one is making.

We know Backpage applied energy towards changing a Backpage operated system that had the first-order effect of facilitating child sex trafficking. The speculation is about Backpage's intent, and for the intents of this discussion, that gets determined in court.

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Re:Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time by PurpleBoxDragon on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @09:53AM (#17818665)
Look at the comment chain with the quote

>You build a form that allows ads to be submitted. It refuses to allow certain illicit keywords. People resubmit a few times until they get the form to accept the ad.

to see where the claim is being made that the company was helping to craft ads to avoid detection.

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