Human Sex Trafficking

For as much as we’ve talked about the dangers of Tony Ortega’s hate-blog and the work of his former employers at the sleazy sex selling site, Backpage, it could be helpful to take a moment to set each in its proper context. For example, Tony Ortega’s ‘angry troll on the internet’ routine generates so little actual revenue that it really must be considered more hobby than ‘job’. For all the time Ortega seems to fritter away over his pet obsession, he must be making embarrassingly little money from it – what’s more embarrassing is that he is living off of his wife, Arielle Silverstein, salary.

Since starting this blog scores of recommend reading and helpful links have been pouring in. This week a particularly interesting youtube clip emerged, which corroborates a lot of what we’ve been covering the last few weeks — namely, compulsive liar Tony Ortega and his close ties to the seedy world of human sex trafficking. This video overview of Tony Ortega exposes not only his links to the now infamous BackPage.com scandal but discusses how his paycheck at the Village Voice was sustained through their money-making efforts.