Most companies hate when their CEO gets arrested for pimping.

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Several courts have upheld BP first amendment rights and BP actually works with LE if requested to help with traffickers and underage girls. Texas has their own moral standards they are trying to apply but doubt they ll change anything.  

The problems BP faces have nothing to do with Texas, their biggest problems are in the very BLUE states of Illinois and California, sorry if the facts don't coincide with your built in biases.

It's a BIG win for the lawyers. BP has deep pockets and can afford the best lawyers out there. The State of Texas doesn't pay the same and they certainly don't attract  lawyers from the best law schools. This is just a free "political" ad for Texas (and California) politicians who know the case will be tied up for years but they got the big headline, "The BP CEO was arrested in Texas by the Texas AG" - big fucking deal!

If you think the govt. is going to win this one. Just cheap election year theatrics is what it is. Everybody knows "trafficking" is nothing but a myth and a scam to rip off the taxpayers money.

What a coincidence? Kamala Harris just happens to be running for Congress...

...a full moon.  

I am certain it won't hold up, but it sucks that they have to go through this, and that so many people are now at risk. It's all BS. When will they decriminalize already???

Someone there is applying moral standards and using them as a basis for charging someone unrelated to the trafficking crimes that took place. It's a stunt you see politicians everywhere try. You know as well as I do how Christian parts of Texas are. Hell they still have dry counties...
       If not there is case law on the books protecting backpage unless Texas can prove the ceo knew; should have known or was complicit in the actual trafficking.  
   

And he'll be right.  Trafficking DOES exist, it just doesn't account for all prostitution, far from it, especially not independent girls like you find on TER.  It also is used for non-prostitution jobs.  Saying it doesn't exist at all is just dumb.  And wrong.

The CEO was picked up in Texas, but on a CALIFORNIA warrant.  

with all the fake pics BP knowingly allows to be reproduced for commercial use.

Some media reports BP has been shut down, but hasn't been yet.  I believe it's hosted in the Netherlands which we have a criminal treaty with but may take legal action in Netherlands to get shut down.  

Lets think about this. With BP being shutdown the BP providers will have do a lot of walking. That would be good for their health. They will be walking in the malls,  street walking places, bars, etc. They will flirt after guys, then afterwords say "Do you have any change ? ". IF they like the amount of change they will see the guy for repeat business.  

Craigslist had to or chose to throw in the towel.  RB got busted, IIRC more on the funny money manipulation, BP is the next high profile target.

And part of why it exists is the criminalization of sex work.

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There are still many hobby related ads on CL.  Sometimes you will see providers have ads on both BP and CL.  You have to be careful, in a state in the DMV (DC/Maryland/Virginia) region a state trooper was busted in a CL sting in a border town recently.

It sure was being promoted as a Texas investigation and arrest this morning.  
        ABC news 14 hrs ago
HOUSTON, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made the highest-profile human trafficking bust in the Lone Star State’s history on Thursday afternoon. Backpage.com is set to be shutdown as a result. Paxton said that the victims that are sex trafficked include both voluntary and involuntary participants. The head of the organization, Carl Ferrer, has been arrested at a Houston airport.

Lots of books on amazon. Many pimps become preachers when they retire from pimping.

Stemming from a 3 year investigation by the CALIFORNIA Attorney General. Gets your facts straight. I have a feeling that he would have been taken into custody whatever airport he happened to fly into

But some of the Christians there are bat shit crazy. Think there's more than a few schools there that still only teach creationism...  
       But that was never the point of either my first two posts. Someone in power in Texas was using their morality to try and change the way the law is meant to be viewed. No different than the other cases you mention. They just didn't happen today

Back Page is as low as you can go. I mean with reviews of girl like Peaches, Bubbles, Mocha and of course you can't forget Thunder how could it be anything less than Back Page.  

"Do you want some of this".....is creative? I guess you also think...

They are good providers on BP just like on any other site.  As matter of fact well reviewed providers ($500/$600 hour) use BP.  One told me that she is not getting the business that she use get off Eros and TER. She went to BP because more good customers are available.  Many of those good customers don't know about TER.  

Something that I don't do. I am doing some java coding in my free time.  Application is almost finished lol.

Pimp comes up to you "Keep an eye on her she is a wild one". Later on the provider he is pimping is trying to seduce you showing herself off, showing you porn images on the phone. This is a example on how things work right in suburban America.

There could be a strong First Amendment remedy for these kind of attacks which are obviously timed for the election.

This is a VERY high powered, WELL funded religiously affiliated organization that has been operating quietly behind the scenes (meaning: not on the public media radar) pushing their agenda to the frightened, clueless masses through grassroots McCarthy era recruitment of amateur spies "for the cause" to working with LE and advancing their agenda by offering to "help" LE fight trafficking better with their "research" and "studies" and most important, by getting in the pockets of local politicians with money and implications that their political careers could be advanced significantly by getting on the "anti-human trafficking crusade" because who is ever going to say that they are FOR human traffickling? On the religious side, they lost the fight to criminalize abortion in the minds of the majority and, on the greed side, they have simply switched over to the anti-human trafficking bandwagon because it is a FREAKING CASH COW! If you can find the information, look at what this organization is bringing in terms of revenue and what it is paying its CEO and other officers. Its a lot of money for rallying the village to get their pitchforks and torches blazing in rank and file. This is the money train where you get paid for chasing phantoms that YOU get to determine are a major or minor threat and can only be combated by YOUR participation. Keep those cards and checks coming!

why would you, "Dave?"  I'm guessing the answer is you're a bottom feeder.

They busted him at the Houston airport after his flight landed, so Immigration probably was told by Dutch authorities when they saw his passport.  If he'd flown to NY first he would have been busted there.

Too busy buying and selling penny stocks.

You are so full of CRAP with your "I know it all" babbling. You remind me of wrps07.  

It was a California warrant, to blame the "backwards Texas AG" is ridiculous, although those words are fitting where it comes to Paxton, who really is a Bible thumping nut job, but that is beside the fact. The warrant was issued in California and to blame Bible thumpers in Texas for BP's bigger problems in the very blue areas of Chicago and California is horseshit.  

What does Texas morality have to do with a CALIFORNIA arrest warrant?  

And part of why it exists is the criminalization of sex work.

Wow. Yes it was a California warrant.  
        The Texas sure made a point of grandstanding, 35 agents, huge press conference, he said Texas was going to charge him after California. Don't take it the wrong way. I love much about Texas but you don't think the AG went way beyond his duty if he was simply serving a warrant? They spent three years working with California investigating BP. Both states wasted huge amount of time and money for 2 AG's to make a political statement.
         California is more fucked up than Texas and I have very little hope of them pulling their political correct heads out of their asses. Texas I still have quite a bit of hope for. Guess that's why I was sort of disappointed their AG was allowed to do this.  
       

and I didn't really mean to defend Texas as Paxton really is a Bible Thumping cretin who I wouldn't support for dogcatcher.  

Don't forget the alligator shoes. Real classy pimps wear alligator shoes.

And he has arrest authority in all states. Did Obama swear him in as a federal agent like Nixon made Elvis a DEA agent?  
Stick to topics you know about so you don't continue to look like an idiot.  

Being one that is Long in the Tooth albeit Short behind the Zipper....

PS: Your  pithy (and pissy) comeback was typically weak.  How about replying to something I actually said? If you're going to make things up, stick to fibbing about Julia's age.

Like a "quote"? You really are a dumbass.  

Discretion is the better part of valor, and anyone with half a brain should exercise extreme caution.  Personally, the 39 and a half foot pole rule applies...

Especially for providers that are climbing the ladder.  
With BP going down that means it may be time for the ladies in the directories and escort malls to get a chance to shine.  
BP will pop up elsewhere under another name but it will eventually fade like CL

An on-line media report that just posted today sheds light in this subject.