Tony Ortega’s Blueprint Of Deception

Tony Ortega

Over the past few posts we’ve been considering the consequences for victims of human sex trafficking, particularly as it impacts its younger victims. The callousness of Backpage execs and its depraved cheerleader, Tony Ortega, in the face of the vast amount of human suffering they are personally responsible cannot be overstated.

As we explained, while Backpage may be dismantled the harmful, long-lasting effects of the sort of human trafficking Tony Ortega tried to convince was nothing more than a ‘radical expression of First Amendment rights’, continue to do harm.

Human trafficking and the exploitation of the young and vulnerable continue even today with cheerleaders of their own, parroting the same false, recycled justifications Tony Ortega was selling with Backpage. A perfect example of this is Pornhub, an online adult website badly in need of legislative intervention.

Friday, December 4, 2020, Missouri’s junior senator, Sen. Josh Hawley, following the online publication of an investigative piece by The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof, announced that he would soon be introducing legislation creating a “federal right to sue” for people victimized by exploitative sites like Pornhub, which rose to prominence in the world of online human trafficking following the federally imposed demise of Backpage.

Readers of this blog might remember Nicholas Kristof, who bravely called out Tony Ortega’s bogus defense of Backpage while exposing the site and its advocates for the bad-faith hypocrites they are.

In a post-Backpage era, the “Tony Ortega’s” of today must no longer be allowed to control the dialogue surrounding sex trafficking in the way Ortega attempted to.

We will have more on Kristof’s piece, for now let it suffice to say this – the sad reality is that blueprint of deception Tony Ortega wrote for online pimps and flesh-peddlers everywhere continues to give life to greedy degenerates looking to cash in the lives and futures of vulnerable woman and young girls.

And just as Ortega originally intended, it does so by flagrantly – if fraudulently –  waving the banner of free speech to make it appear as if the naked, unchecked avarice of scumbags like the ones Ortega so long carried water for is the real cause the American public should be rallying to fight for, not this ‘hysterical nonsense’ about protecting sex trafficking victims.

Projection is, after all, the classic Tony Ortega deception.

Now a new generation of sex trafficking apologists is picking up where Ortega ‘propaganda projection’ style arguments left off – and they are using the very blueprint he devised to do it.

Let our readers not be fooled: Tony Ortega’s lies remain Tony Ortega’s lies no matter whose mouth they’re spilling out of.