On a brief break from court at the Lacey and Larkin Trial. Most of this morning has been taken up with the cop from California who basically is reading from what he says are old ads that appeared on #Backpage 1/
The cop explained how he posted an ad for a nonexistent sex worker in The Sacramento Section of Backpage under escorts. And he also posted an ad for a green couch under the furniture section of the Sacramento Backpage 2/
Guess which one got more responses? Drumroll please. The escort. No surprise there. He said he only got one call on the couch. Granted the couch didn’t look like very much. 3/
After 10 days, he called Carl Ferrer, Backpage CEO, and identified himself.Told Carl the ad was one for prostitution. And asked him to take it down. Carl asked him how he knew the ad was for prostitution. Cop said he couldn’t say,subject of an ongoing investigation. 3/
Carl took the ad down almost immediately. And informed him that the green couch had the same phone number on it. 4/
The cop also spoke about how they were all these other ads on the site in the Sacramento section for escorts which were in his opinion obviously for prostitution. The question I have his if he’s such a great cop and these ads were so obviously illegal…5/
Then why didn’t the cop go out and arrest all of these people who supposedly were breaking the law? I think the answer is obvious, the ads were legal and he could not just go out and start arresting people. 6/
This pointless waste of money that the government calls an investigation does reveal that Things are not what they seem to be on the Internet. 7/
I’ll be back at the next break which likely will be around noon 8/8
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