FBI Seizes Backpage.com
The FBI, which at one point seized and operated one of the largest sites for distribution of Child Porn, Playpen (see here), has seized Backpage.com, the classifieds site that purportedly facilitated sex trafficking and pornography. The CEO of Backpage was also recently arrested.
More details are supposed to come shortly, the FBI reports, according to a post on backpage.com which states, “Additional information will be provided at around 6:00pm EST on Friday April 6th by the U.S. Department of Justice.
We would not be surprised that in connection with the seizure of the website, they will be ascertaining users of the site and more arrests will come. Just like they did with Playpen, this is likely another attempt to fish with a huge net and catch guppies.
Last month, US Congress passed legislation that would hold websites responsible for illegal content posted by its users. The new law directly conflicted with the Communications Decency Act, which provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an “interactive computer service” who publish information provided by others. The new law was concerning enough for Craigslist to remove their Personals section.
The one question remaining is; with Craigslist personals and Backpage.com gone, how will Sheriff Grady Judd spend his days?
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Incidents like this, and the raid on Trump’s lawyer’s office, tell me that the FBI is out of control. They are operating on their own agenda as part of the Deep State. Next to fall will be pornography websites under the guise of “good faith” and “protecting the children.” Read the history of pre-Nazi Germany. America is already well along on that path. The “sex offender” has become the modern day “Jude.” Americans are too busy with their smart phone apps to be bothered by any of this though. Sad.
Sigh – sex offender laws are out of control. Taking over a porn site is something that is allowed by the famous Patriot Act (a conservative invention BTW) – the fact that there are out of control laws in our country that allow LE to do things we could have never imagined does not mean that the entire justice system is wrong. Just because they are allowed to do “stings” does not mean that every thing they do is corrupt. I will tell you that judges do not issue warrants against a lawyer (especially when it is POTUS lawyer) lightly – I guarantee they have probable cause for a crime. The 2 incidents have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Actually, the Patriot Act expired in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act
Its successor, USA Freedom Act is a watered down version. Neither contain the word “pornography.” I don’t see how either could be used to justify the seizure of Backpage, which has nothing to do with terrorism and was not a porn site. The FBI is out of control.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/jerome-corsi-fbi-deep-state-raid/2018/04/10/id/853726/
Most laws are fine, it’s their interpretation that is the problem. To me, a “justice” system that convicts people with imaginary victims they create is corrupt. Most judges, FISA or otherwise, will sign anything from prosecutors and district attorneys. Just look at the Steele dossier. I believe the two incidents are connected because they are both about sex. Backpage was a sex marketplace and the raid on Trump’s lawyer is all about finding proof of Trump’s affair with a porn star and claiming her “silence” was paid for by campaign funds. America’s war on sex continues, unabated.
http://www.waronsex.com/epilogue.html
What allows it is the fact that ALL LE in the US is now considered part of Homeland Security. No, it is not going to mention pron specifically – instead it allows the seizure of items or places deemed to be dangerous. Of course you are entitled to your opinion – but in mine most laws are not fine. In a few short decades the USA has more than quadrupled the number of felonies in the USA. The US Code is out of control. A country that has about 6% of the World’s population has 24% of the World’s population of incarcerated. More than ANY country in the World (and not by a ratio or percentage – in shear numbers) – Laws are not open to interpretation. Mandatory minimums etc. have caused countless innocent people to plead guilty. However, opinions ARE interpretations but some are based on facts and some are based on what a person believes to be true. One is accurate and one is a fallacy. It is amazing to me that some of the same people that thought a president getting a B*** J** in the W with an adult woman in a consensual encounter was impeachment worthy but a president that has paid off several people for their silence, spoken in public about sexual assault and how he does it, paid off others to also keep silent, right now being sued for other sexual harassment….and on and on is seemingly ok. And that is just the sexual crap! lol The FBI is not half as out of control as the Administration. Actually the only part of the Patriot Act that was taken out was to stop the monitoring of phone calls of private citizens (that is of course unless the might be terrorists).
“Following a lack of Congressional approval, parts of the Patriot Act expired on June 1, 2015. With the passage of the USA Freedom Act on June 2, 2015, the expired parts were restored and renewed through 2019. However, Section 215 of the law was amended to stop the National Security Agency (NSA) from continuing its mass phone data collection program. Instead, phone companies will retain the data and the NSA can obtain information about targeted individuals with permission from a federal court.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act
Read Title II: Surveillance procedures – this is the part that allows the taking over of websites for cyber crime and would be one of the parts that was reestablished through 2019.
I never involved in any stuff like this or much of nothing really. Id just like to feel part of society and country again. To have worth and ability to feel well.
So who is the Ed Meese for the new millennia? This stuff sure sounds familiar. But as sexual harrasment is now called sexual assault and patronizing a prostitute is now considered to be sex trafficking (at least in Polk County) are we really surprised?
Grady Judd..aka Elmer Fudd, aka, lower than whale poop on the bottom ocean, is going to get bored…he is going to miss the Outback takeout and chinese food He ate during the Sting operations..he now has time to drive the two Army tanks he bought with ‘Megans and Adams’ money, again, never met Adam Walsh and the Megan person,..he will create and manufacture crime some how..he is fixated on keeping his jails over crowded..that is his modus operandi
A schmuk .
A mess