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For years, Backpage was protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which says platforms can police content as they see fit. As long as they don't *create* it, the gov can’t prosecute them for something illegal that a user does or says 3/ https://t.co/2ww5LHMui5 https://t.co/HdYH44kLDv — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 23, 2019 Hibernated

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Founded by Michael Lacey and James Larkin, Backpage was a kind of red-light district for the internet. For as little as $2 a day, users could post in “Adult”’ categories like “body rubs” and “dom & fetish” 2/ https://t.co/2ww5LHMui5 https://t.co/0qSR1joQbr — PolitiTweet.org

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In the case of Backpage, Senate investigators have claimed that, rather than removing illegal content, the site used clever moderation practices to “sanitize the content.” This included editing ads and alerting customers when they used a banned term 4/ https://t.co/2ww5LHMui5 https://t.co/xs8U3yh3Zb — PolitiTweet.org

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