Lesson Learned: First Time for Everything and Not in a Good Way
Published on October 27, 2024
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Yesterday, I used the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org to look at my old website for classified ad sites I recommended in 2017. One of the sites I recommended was Backpage.
Curious to see if Backpage was still in business, I clicked the link to the Backpage home page.
The following image is the first I have seen online in 40 years.
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The Backpage founders have been sentenced to prison. Michael Lacey, 76, received a 5-year sentence for money laundering in August 2024. He still faces 30 prostitution facilitation charges.
Lesson learned: Being risk-averse, I have started paying more attention to my website's legal pages, including a Disclaimer page.
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