Backpage.com Sues ‘Coercive’ Sheriff who Halted Visa, MasterCard Payments
Classified ads site Backpage.com has filed a lawsuit against the County Sheriff who led a successful campaign to have Visa and MasterCard cut its payment processing. Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart’s complaint resulted in Backpage having to use cryptocurrency as an exclusive payment method for ads in its adult section. Dart had alleged that the ads promoted and encouraged sexual trafficking, something which Backpage had struggled to counter in recent years, Talking Points Memo reports. Now, a suit filed Tuesday against Dart alleges he “achieved his purpose through false accusations,....
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Following the news that Backpage had launched a lawsuit against Chicago-area Sheriff Thomas Dart, the company has made more headway, winning a "restraining order" against the outspoken sheriff. He will no longer be able to make "de-funding" efforts against Backpage.com. Lawyers for Backpage.com are pushing to have the Sheriff rescind his letters to MasterCard and Visa, which would amount to an apology. There is no way for Backpage.com to force the credit card processing companies to start working with them again, but if the companies knew that the Sheriff's threats of legal action were....
MasterCard and American Express have recently announced that they will be barring the use of their credit cards to pay for sex ads on Backpage.com. Visa also banned its service on the site, which is allegedly being used for sex traffickers. According to Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart, the ads for escorts on the site are part of a group of sex-trafficking industry players that prey on the young and vulnerable. The site offers forums to find roommates and sell goods, like other classified advertising sites like Craigslist, but its primary revenue stream is through its adult page, added....
Recently, the classifieds website Backpage was banned from using American Express, MasterCard, and Visa, loudly. The reasoning behind this is that the site is used for sex workers to find customers. The site is said to sell millions of classified ads to women in the United States, and a sheriff in Illinois instigated the shutdown. Before that, MasterCard and Visa had no problem processing transactions for Backpage. Backpage began accepting Bitcoin at some point, and now it is the only form of payment that works for the website. Of course, the Bitcoin network cannot be shut down. But if you....
Backpage.com is taking Chicago sheriff, Thomas Dart to federal court. The business is suing the Cook County official for his campaign to get Visa and Mastercard to deny them service. So far the sheriff was quite successful as both credit companies ended their service with the adult magazine. On July 21, Backpage filed suit against Dart for his....
Paxful was chosen by Backpage.com to provide users with bitcoins when the company was shut down by Visa and Mastercard. Now that Paxful is up and running, they've had their hands full teaching many people the basics of Bitcoin in the process of selling it to them, so they can place their ads on Backpage.com. Now the company has made a video to ease the process for Backpage.com users. Also read: Chicago Sheriff Barred From Tampering With Backpage Funding. In plain language, the process of buying bitcoins and spending them at Backpage.com is explained. The video aims to take some of the....