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2. Backpage - Wikipedia

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   Backpage. Backpage.com was a classified advertising website founded in 2004 by the alternative newspaper chain New Times Inc./. New Times Media (later known as Village Voice Media or VVM) as a rival to Craigslist. [1] Similar to Craigslist, Backpage let users post ads to categories such as personals, automotive, rentals, jobs and adult services.

3. craigslist - Wikipedia

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   Sex ads had cost $10 initially and it was estimated they would have brought in $44 million in 2010 had they continued. [51] [52] In the four months following the closure, monthly revenue from sex ads on six other sites (primarily Backpage) increased from $2.1 to $3.1 million, partly due to price increases. [53]

4. Michael Lacey (editor) - Wikipedia

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   Backpage was lucrative and, like Craigslist, featured ads for an array of goods and services, including apartments, car sales, jobs, personals, etc. The site's adult ads—legal advertisements for escorts, striptease, erotic massage and the like—were among the few that Backpage charged users to post.

5. Craigslist Censors Its 'Adult Services' Listings: Refunds on ...

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   Sex sells, censorship doesn't. That's what Craigslist is learning after it blocked access to its controversial "adult services" listings late last week. The move came two weeks after attorneys ...

6. Despite Crackdown, Craigslist's Sex Ads Are Thriving - AOL

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   The AGs and Craigslist agreed in 2008 that adult ads shouldn't be free, and that posters of the ads should have to pay by valid credit card. The theory behind the move was that criminals wouldn't ...

7. Lawyers argue indicted Backpage employees sought to keep ...

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   A former executive and two operations managers for classified site Backpage.com worked vigorously to keep the platform free of ads for prostitution even as strategies on how to do so constantly ...

8. Jim Larkin (publisher) - Wikipedia

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   Cook County, Illinois' Sheriff Dart sued Craigslist in 2009 over adult ads and lost. In 2015, he targeted Backpage using a different legal tactic. Instead of engaging Backpage directly, Dart wrote a letter on his official letterhead to MasterCard and Visa, warning them that because they were processing payments in connection to adult ads on ...

9. Backpage founder will face Arizona retrial on charges he ...

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   Backpage’s operators said they never allowed ads for sex and assigned employees and automated tools to try to delete such ads. Their legal team maintained the content on the site was protected ...