THELOGICALINDIAN - MasterCard and American Express accept afresh appear that they will be barring the use of their acclaim cards to pay for sex ads on Backpagecom Visa additionally banned its account on the armpit which is allegedly actuality acclimated for sex traffickers
According to Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart, the ads for escorts on the armpit are allotment of a accumulation of sex-trafficking industry players that casualty on the adolescent and vulnerable. The site offers forums to acquisition attached and advertise goods, like added classified announcement sites like Craigslist, but its primary acquirement beck is through its developed page, added Dart.
With that, the sheriff asked acclaim agenda companies to abolish their affiliation from the casework offered in Backpage.com’s developed section. “Visa’s rules prohibit our arrangement from actuality acclimated for actionable activity,” said Visa agent John Earnhardt in a account on Wednesday. “Visa has a continued history of alive with law administration to aegis the candor of the acquittal arrangement and we will abide to do so.”
Spokespersons for both MasterCard and American Express accept additionally accustomed their cessation of casework accompanying to the website. However, bitcoin payments are still accustomed by the website, which Dart says would accomplish it added difficult to bolt perpetrators.
Bitcoin payments are about anonymous, as there is no almanac of the counterparties circuitous in the transactions. The affairs are artlessly recorded on a accessible balance alleged blockchain, which is adapted and absolute by a arrangement of computers analytic circuitous algorithms.
With that, authorities will be clumsy to clue buyers or sellers on these sex ads, although Cook County Sheriff’s badge accept fabricated added than 800 arrests back 2024 stemming from Backpage ads. “We accept no aboveboard angle that we’ll end prostitution, end trafficking, end corruption of children,” Dart said. “What we’ve capital all forth is to accomplish it added difficult and accomplish (traffickers) easier to catch.”
