New “Evidence” in Backpage Case Reveals Government’s Flawed Prosecution
The prosecution in the Backpage case recently released company emails from 2012, claiming they prove the defendants' guilt; they instead belie the strength of the government's case.
The full quote from the 2012 email exchange reads as follows:
“We do how many million ads, and he picks out one, tells us by the end of the day and wants our total response by a.m.? Of course there are kids who get through the system. As there are in bars. This makes pursuit of solution, i.e., USC study, more critical rather than scoring political points.”
The “USC study” apparently refers to a report on human trafficking online by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. The study advised against “singling out [online] technologies as a root cause of trafficking,” and proposed that these technologies “be leveraged to provide actionable, data-driven information in real time to those positioned to help victims.”
Given such context, as well as the fact that Backpage regularly cooperated with law enforcement in order to catch perpetrators who were misusing the site, only a latter-day Inspector Javert would look at such an email and assume that it established guilt.
https://frontpageconfidential.com/new-evidence-in-backpage-case-reveals-governments-flawed-prosecution/