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    How Federal law protects Backpage.com as place for underage sex trafficking

    Backpage.com makes a lot of money adverstising sex, and those ads often feature underage trafficked girls. Years of litigation have failed to find Backpage liable.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 10, 2017 • 1 min read

    Backpage.com makes a lot of money adverstising sex, and those ads often feature underage trafficked girls. Years of litigation have failed to find Backpage liable.

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    3 of 5
    Update from Standing Rock, and Governor Brown's environmental record
    1. 0:00The battle over Access Pipeline continues
    2. 8:18How green is Governor Brown?
    3. 16:26How Federal law protects Backpage.com as place for underage sex traffickingYou’re reading this
    4. 29:03Is '50 Shades Darker' steamy or tedious?
    5. 41:10Remembering the Black Cat protest for gay rights, 50 years later
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