Online Sex-Trafficking Demand Drops After Backpage Takedown, Trump Admin Policies – IOTW Report

Online Sex-Trafficking Demand Drops After Backpage Takedown, Trump Admin Policies

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Demand for online sex-trafficking has dropped as the operators of smaller sites struggle to stay afloat, following the shutdown of the largest human-trafficking portal in the United States, according to a new report shared with The Epoch Times by a counter-human trafficking technology company.

In April 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or SESTA-FOSTA, that stopped the shielding of website operators from state criminal charges or civil liability if they facilitate sex ads or prostitution. Just days later, sex-trafficking website Backpage.com was taken down by the FBI.

The report by Childsafe.AI—the world’s first artificial intelligence platform for monitoring, graphing, and modeling child-exploitation risk on the web—details how the twin acts “dramatically changed” the sex-trafficking online marketplace, specifically the distribution layer that served the underground commercial sex economy.

Now, a year later, the report explains how the industry has since been fragmented across dozens of websites, all competing fiercely for market share. No single dominant site emerged in the past year as the popularity of the online economy “remains volatile and shifts quickly.”  read more

4 Comments on Online Sex-Trafficking Demand Drops After Backpage Takedown, Trump Admin Policies

  1. Calling all prostitution “human trafficking” cheapens the phrase to non -relevance. It’s sort of like “racist” that way.

    Legalize activities between consenting adults and “trafficking” will stop being lucrative.

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  2. “Legalize activities between consenting adults and “trafficking” will stop being lucrative.”
    Disagree. Until Jesus returns, there will always be a market for “slaves,” children particularly.
    I too believe Pizzagate is real.

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