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 Tony Ortega In our last post we were looking at a number of victims of the Backpage human sex trafficking scheme which hypocritical blowhards like Tony Ortega long championed as defenders of free speech. And yet, as we have seen, the sort of ‘free speech’ Tony Ortega’s Backpage cronies trafficked in came at a Continue reading Backpage’s “Free Speech” Comes At Devastating Cost To Victims  Tony Ortega This week we are going to shift gears just a little bit. In our examination of the official timeline of the rise of Backpage as laid forth in the State’s charging document, we’ve been focusing on the business side of the Backpage tragedy. It is worth noting, however, that the indictment itself Continue reading These Select Summaries of Backpage Victims Speak Volumes  The Backpage syndicate behind bars On May 15, 2015, a Company B employee posing as a Backpage employee sent an email to an apparent prostitute. The subject line was “Offering Free Advertisement from Backpage.com” and the text of the email sought to persuade the prostitute to “upgrade your ad with sponsor placement or automatic Continue reading Exposed: Backpage’s Own In-house Email Details Their Complicity  Tony Ortega Recently we read about Backpage’s clandestine strategy to use the Philippines as a testing ground to develop new overseas markets for their human sex trafficking scam. We saw how it was the heads of Backpage accomplished this, using a controversial strategy of hijacking information from the other websites to create competing sex Continue reading A Corporate Culture of Pure Corruption  It’s no secret that in addition to facilitating illegal prostitution and child sex trafficking through its U.S. website, Backpage has also facilitated similar crimes through its websites in foreign countries. Perhaps even more disturbingly, court documents show that within this context, Backpage would often actively generate the content of the illegal prostitution and underage Continue reading Backpage Was A World Wide Conspiracy  Tony Ortega Thus far in our exploration of the official court documents surrounding the pending Backpage human sex trafficking trial we have found nothing to support to false pretense made by Tony Ortega and his fellow conspirators on the Backpage payroll that knew nothing about what was going on. On the contrary, it seems Continue reading With Tony Ortega’s Lie Exposed, Backpage’s Dangerous Shell Game Continued  Tony Ortega Backpage Apologist Beginning in or around January 2016, Backpage’s moderators were instructed to stop removing ads that contained the phrase “GFE”, short for ‘Girl Friend Experience’. For example, on January 28, 2016, Assistant Operations Manager Joye Vaught was sent an email from a Backpage moderator explaining that “As far as I am Continue reading The Lesson Tony Ortega And His Sex Trafficking Pals Refused To Learn  It’s no secret Backpage flaunted local, state, and federal laws at every turn. Despite multiple pleas to cease and desist which the Backpage sex trafficking operation received from child advocacy groups and continued warnings from police departments across the country, the shadowy organization nonetheless persisted in its wanton abuses. Court records show that Continue reading As Pressure Mounted, Backpage Doubled Down On Its Shameless Villainy  Andrew Padilla On April 24, 2014, Joye Vaught sent an email to Backpage’s moderators (while cc’ing Andrew Padilla). In this email, Vaught explained that if a moderator came across an ad containing a link to a a “sex for money” website, the moderator should add the link to a list of banned terms but Continue reading From Carl Ferrer to Tony Ortega: A History Of Backpage’s Subterfuge To Avoid Scrutiny  Tony Ortega Backpage Apologist On September 11, 2013, a Backpage representative made a presentation to the Arizona Governor’s Task Force on Human Trafficking. Following this presentation (which took place in Phoenix), the representative was asked whether there would be any “cons” to requiring verifiable identification of all escorts being advertised on Backpage’s website. In Continue reading Backpage: Primed For Crime From Day One | You can’t make donations to this site…
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