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Congress is a bunch of idiots. Online ads are probably the #1 spot for sex slaves to be found and returned home. Instead they drive everything to dark nets and offline methods of acquiring clientele, and thus making it harder to police and save lives. Not to mention all the freedoms this can potentially take away.

I'm against sex traffickers as much as the next guy, but this is not the way to stop them.



> Online ads are probably the #1 spot for sex slaves to be found and returned home.

I'd never heard of this. I'm not trying to call you out or anything, but do you have any sources or further reading? I'd be interested in seeing how this works.



Thank you!


A YC (2015 I think) backed company did just this. Collated Backpage ads to assist Law Enforcement in tracking down child sex slaves. At the time they were called Rescue Forensics and were acquired a year or so ago.


> Congress is a bunch of idiots

I mean, not all...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?442912-6/senator-wyden-online-...




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