Unlike Craigslist, the owners of Backpage have had the testicularity to stare down the Do-gooders eyeball to eyeball. Craigslist blinked, backed down, even after winning this sensational result in Chicago:
http://www.xxxlaw.com/cases/judgment...craigslist.pdf
They are not breaking any laws. If they were, the posse would have come to get them a long time ago. Do-gooder intimidation. There are ways of running escort advertising that will put you in jail. There are ways of running escort advertising that break no laws, too.
And if they are smart, they will not go anywhere.
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Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964