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Backpage: Beyond Borders, Beyond Trafficking

Backpage: Beyond Borders, Beyond Trafficking

Simon Ho-On We’ve been looking a lot lately at the vast number of cases working their way through the courts in virtually every state in the nation. It’s worthwhile remembering, however, that the damage done by Backpage — the child sex trafficking website Tony Ortega stood on many a soapbox to defend — spread across the globe. Today we learned of a shocking story out of Canada. Its details, while particularly gruesome and inarguably evil, should be published here and elsewhere if for no other reason than to shine a light on the true depravity of the site Tony Ortega stridently insisted was merely exercising its right to ‘freedom of speech’ by hosting scores of advertisements selling minors for sexual use.