Re:Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time
by michaelmrose on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:07PM
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In the McMartin Preschool case the allegations were utterly fantastic. We had a bunch of Satan worshippers abusing children in a dungeon dug beneath the school that they would have had to have dug with spoons as people would have certainly noticed a backhoe and a bunch of construction workers digging the sex dungeon.
No actual crimes were committed and there were no victims. In this case the facts are entirely pedestrian and the victims real. It seems pretty clear that people were abused. The only real question is how guilty are the people running Backpage.
Since they were running a page selling people and seemed at best disinterested in not selling children I'd say very. If you sell produce you acquire along with customers money the obligation to ensure that the produce you sell is safe and doesn't cause your customers to die of food poisoning.
If you sell sex it seems people selling children for sex is a foreseeable risk that they did at best NOTHING to mitigate.
I'm not sure why some people seem apt to defend them.
No actual crimes were committed and there were no victims. In this case the facts are entirely pedestrian and the victims real. It seems pretty clear that people were abused. The only real question is how guilty are the people running Backpage.
Since they were running a page selling people and seemed at best disinterested in not selling children I'd say very. If you sell produce you acquire along with customers money the obligation to ensure that the produce you sell is safe and doesn't cause your customers to die of food poisoning.
If you sell sex it seems people selling children for sex is a foreseeable risk that they did at best NOTHING to mitigate.
I'm not sure why some people seem apt to defend them.