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Backpage.com, a classified advertising website, has self-censored its adult advertising section, but the action has had little effect on the posting of similar illegal sex-related advertisements in other subsections of the site, police say.
The website shuttered its adult advertising section under mounting pressure from a U.S. Senate subcommittee under the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
In an announcement on its page, website officials said it had been "unconstitutionally censored," a move some investigators described as a blip on law enforcement radars.
The self-censorship came on the cusp of a report by the U.S. Senate subcommittee that characterizes the website as a hub of "human trafficking, especially the trafficking of minors."
Local law enforcement have widely used the website as a tool for tracking victims and investigating perpetrators of human trafficking.
Jason Weis, a Jenks Police Department officer who is co-founder of the Demand Project, said many of the advertisements that transitioned to other sections of the website were duplicates of what one would have found in the adult advertising section.
"It took no longer than 30 minutes to an hour for it to go to the women-seeking-men (dating) page," Weis said.
Sgt. Todd Evans, who investigates drug, gambling and prostitution offenses for the vice unit of the Tulsa Police Department, said he noticed the same trend after the adult section shut down. He's heard the same from police in Oklahoma City.
What we anticipate right now is with Backpage shutting down its adult services, that doesnt mean all these people are just going to give up and go away," Evans said. "Theyre just going to find a different place to go."
Kristin Weis, the wife of Jason Weis and executive director of the Demand Project, said the shuttering of the adult section may have caused issues with in-process investigations. However, it was just one tool used by investigators to source predators, victims and traffickers.
"You shut down one avenue and another one opens," Kristin Weis said. "There is no dead end."
Evans said the subsection shutting down disrupted his department, just as it disrupted prostitutes and pimps.
In response, Evans said his unit has adjusted and he expects the prostitution and human trafficking rings to do the same. That's what both groups did after those similar ads moved from Craigslist to Backpage in 2010, he said.
Evans said he still sees prostitution ads on the website, albeit fewer though he said there are still "plenty."
The website shutting down that section hasn't affected any of the TPD's ongoing investigations, he said.
Human trafficking, a lengthy statute in Oklahoma's criminal code, is characterized by "compelling, forcing or intimidating a person to act," according to statute.
Sex trafficking is often considered the most common form of human trafficking in the Tulsa area.
Backpage's adult advertising section was only a symptom of human trafficking, Kristin Weis said.
"If there's a buyer then there's going to be a pimp to sell the product," she said.
The Weises say their organization has helped more than 70 victims of sexual exploitation during its four years of operation. Sex trafficking, often considered the most common form of human trafficking, is under-reported or misreported, Kristin Weis said.
The challenge, Jason Weis said, is removing the demand.
"Everybody who looks at these ads, they know what they're looking for," he said.
Backpage has largely been praised as law-enforcement friendly. Jason Weis said the classified advertising site has been "fairly cooperative" in investigations.
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Two of the biggest executives at Twitter said they are planning on introducing new tools to help prevent users from saying hateful things on the platform.
Making Twitter a safer place is our primary focus and we are now moving with more urgency than ever, said Ed Ho, the companys vice president of engineering, in a string of tweets. We heard you, we didnt move fast enough last year; now were thinking about progress in days and hours not weeks and months, Ho continued.
While Twitter purged a number of provocative accounts from the social media company in recent months, it apparently wasnt enough for Ho or otherusers of the revolutionary platform. (RELATED:Twitter Suspends Its CEO At Same Time As Alt-Right Purge)
Well be rolling out a number of product changes in the days ahead. Some changes will be visible and some will be less so, Ho tweeted, later adding that there is a need for long overdue fixes to mute/block.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also chimed in, highlighting a new approach.
The social media company has received tons of criticism from both ends of the debate, some arguing that it is not doing enough to remove offensive comment or the offensive commenters themselves, and others arguing that it is censoring content and not acting as a medium for free speech. (RELATED:Twitter Doesnt Rule Out Banning Trump If He Gets Too Unruly)
Twitter is currently dealing with a number of problems, namely, anumber of high-level staff departures in just the span of a few months, including its CTO, COO, vice president of product, and director of media partnerships and head of news, government and elections. (RELATED:Twitter Seems To Be Treading Water After A Rough Past Few Months)
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If you were watching ABC News last night, you may have seen something strange happen during a segment on Trumps Muslim ban. Some viewers report the feed was cut, and when it got rolling again, a completely different story was being told.
One Reddit user detailedthe incident in a post titled, Last night, ABC News was silenced:
I was watching the news with my sisters family and David was telling a story. He started it about Trump and the immigration problems going on right now and once the lady speaker started telling a story about a man who was a translator overseas for the US Gov., the picture went away and eventually her voice was slowly turned down to completely cut off. David showed back up and continued with a completely different story. He didnt tell what happened with that story and it seemed like 10 minutes later, they told the same story with a different script.
The threadgarnered hundreds of replies, many from people saying they saw the peculiar cut as well. Many, however, were skeptical it was censorship and pondered alternate explanations. Although the post was eventually labeled questionable information and locked to disable commenting because it broke several of the forums rules, it had already been upvoted thousands of times and made it to Redditsfront page. And as it goes on the internet, the information spread to other sites where it was presented as fact.
But what some feared to be censorship was no more than a technical glitch, according to a source at ABC News.
The source told the Observer that 10 minutes of the 23-minute show were focussed on immigration and that the glitch was fixed for later feeds, meaning anyone who watched later in a different time zone or online wouldve seen a typical broadcast.
While we were confirming the glitch with ABC News, theoriginal Reddit post was removed and the thread was updated to say the following: After reviewingthe video provided by OP we have come to the conclusion that this was most likely a technical glitch. As such, the post has been removed. If other evidence is found, please feel free to message us.
As for an explanation for why it seemed the script had been altered after the glitch, one Redditor, who claims to have worked in TV news as an anchor,reporter and producer, gave the following insight, which was then corroborated by more broadcast news professionals:
This was David not handling a live feed cutting out well. This happens quite often. From the producers standpoint, theres not much to do but move onto the next story and try and get the live feed back up for later in the show. David shouldve said something like, Having some technical problems, well revisit that story later in the show. Its likely both he and the producer panicked and just went right onto the next story. Uncommon for talent at that level to panic, but theyre only human. Sometimes theres not enough time to go back to a story. Also quite common.
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Charlie Nash: Do you think censorship and public outrage is becoming a prominent problemagain in society? Have you faced any censorship issues while trying to maintain complete creative control overyour movies?
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Tom Six: Absolutely! Society has grown to a disgustingly mediocre and politically correct way of thinking. Like, the movie world only makes play-it-safe movies now. In Hollywood it is all about a producer with a calculator who wants to please everyone and is only concerned about making money. They have a system where you can type in words like Brad Pitt and Action and the computer will calculate the box-office. I think it is the worst way to make movies, that is not what film-making and art is all about. I believe in movies that bite, burn, shock, hurt, and are unconventional. Where a filmmaker is still a warrior fighting the mediocrity. I want audience to smell the dirty laundry.
In the UK, censors cut many minutes from The Human Centipede 2 by law. It feels like I made a comedy and they cut out all the good jokes. Its appalling. Nobody is forced to see a movie. Give audiences their own choice to watch it or not. The upside is they make great free worldwide publicity for me and they are losing their grip, like standard distribution companies lose their power because of theinternet. So Im unstoppable and I keep making the horrific movies I wanna make.
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CN: Your new horror flickThe Onania Clubis coming out soon.Will your fans be even more horrified by your new movie than they were with the Human Centipede trilogy? Have you managed toachieve the impossible by outdoing your previous films?
TS: The Onania Club is a totally different movie than my human pedes. I want to stay very original, like all pede parts were totally different. I dont consider my movies typical horror films, but they are horrific and have pitch black humor (I came up with the Vanta black genre, meaning the blackest black possible). The Onania Club will go beyond everything evil you have ever seen on a psychological level. But I dont shock just to shock. Its just the way I think, and trust me it will divide audiences again from intense love or intense hate. It will certainly have a huge impact and stir things up, exactly the way it should be in these awful politically correct times. It will be a bit of polluted air in fresh environment.
CN: What would you say to the people who want to censor or shut down movies that try to push the envelope and shockaudiences?
TS: I want to Human Centipede them. My dear people, it is a fucking movie. It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief. Its art. Dont treat grown-ups like children. Let people decide for themselves whether they want to see a movie or not. Nobody is forced to watch movies. Fuck them!
CN: You have an impeccable fashion taste, and have become almost as well-known for your vintage gentleman-style fits as your movies.What brands are your favorite?
TS: I do not care for brands. I dont want to pay them a lot of money for free advertisement.I love to shop at vintage stores or have my suits made. I love bespoke suits and when I buy a vintage suit, I will have it adjusted by my Amsterdam tailor. For me style is everything! I am decaying in style. What the hell happened? In the 40s and 50s people dressed great, but nowadays people walk around dressed like homeless people. I wish there was a fashion police that would execute people who wear torn denim jeans when not working in the coal mines and baseball caps backwards when not playing baseball.
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