Canadian women and youth have been trafficked and sexually exploited on the notorious site known as Backpage.com.
Multiple U.S. government agencies seized Backpage and all its affiliated websites on April 6.
Dave Mansell, Co-chair for C.A.R.E, knows there is human trafficking on other websites.
“You just go on any social media site, you can even go on Tinder, and they will advertise sexual exploitation. I mean these are just platforms that exploiters use. So in 2010, Craigslist was shut down and Backpage was the second in the market in the world, and I’m saying second; there’s a first that’s still running and there’s a third and a fourth. They’re just platforms. We really need to address how to create, whether it be through legislation or whether it be through society itself, how to target the johns and the pimps so they can’t be faceless and do it autonomously through the internet and sites like this.”
Mansell encourages people to report any activity that looks like human trafficking.
