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Hold the Backpage 活捉活捉 Backpage 出自译者说 Hold the Backpage A sheriff takes on the biggest marketplace for prostitution 警长与全美最大的性交易市场作对 翻译 herosoul THE self portraits some on pink paper decorated with colourful glitter and pinned to the bare walls of a meeting room of Cook County jail America s largest resemble the drawings of a ten year old A few have oversize teardrops rolling down their cheeks I lost my childhood says Patrice an African American inmate who is being held on charges of identity theft Patrice was raped at the age 12 started to work in a strip club on the West side of the city when she was 14 and was lured into prostitution in California by the man she then thought of as her boyfriend at the age of 16 库克郡监狱 全美最大的监狱 会议室光秃秃的墙上 挂着好多自像画 有的 画纸是粉红色的 还用色彩缤纷的闪粉装饰 画风稚嫩 仿佛出自十岁孩童之 手 其中几张画中 硕大的泪珠从脸颊上滑落 一名非裔美国人帕特莉斯说 我没有童年 她因盗用身份的罪名而被关押 帕特莉斯在 12 岁时被强暴 14 岁时开始在该市西部的脱衣舞俱乐部工作 16 岁时被她后来所谓的男友诱骗到 加州卖淫 Patrice is one of about 150 women in Division 17 a part of the jail for mostly young women many of them mothers or pregnant held on relatively minor charges Most of them were prostitutes many have mental health problems and nearly all are recovering addicts Katie a woman in her 20s of Puerto Rican descent dropped out of school when she was 14 got pregnant by a gang member had an abortion and started to drink heavily A few years later she was hooked on crack and heroin and worked as a prostitute for Josh and John who put her up in a hotel room took her earnings up to 1 700 a day and supplied her with drugs in exchange 帕特莉斯是监狱里 17 区 中 150 名女犯人 主要是年轻女人 中的一个 其中 很多人已有身孕或已为人母 都是因相对较轻的罪名而被拘留 大部分人是妓 女 许多人有心理健康问题 几乎所有人都是处于戒毒期的瘾君子 卡蒂是带 有波多黎各血统 20 出头的女性 14 岁时就辍学 因为与一名帮派成员厮混而 怀孕 堕胎后开始酗酒 几年后迷失于可卡因和海洛因中 并为卖淫组织 Josh and John 作妓女 他们安排她去一家酒店房间 拿走她的收入 一天最高可达 1700 美元 并以毒品作为交换 Katie gave birth to three children two of whom were taken away by social workers because of her addictions Her oldest a nine year old boy is living with his father And then there is Hannah who comes from a prosperous white family on Chicago s North side Hannah has been on drugs since she was 15 though she still managed to graduate with honours from New Trier one of the county s most prestigious high schools and subsequently got a degree from Tulane University To feed her own heroin habit and that of her addicted boyfriend she sold herself for sex sometimes even taking clients into her parents home 卡蒂有三个孩子 因为她是个瘾君子 社区义工把其中两个孩子带走 年龄最 大的孩子 9 岁 则与他父亲生活 还有汉娜 她出身于芝加哥城北一个富裕 的白人家庭 汉娜在 15 岁时就染上毒瘾 但她仍可以从县里最负盛名的新特里 尔中学毕业 随后在图兰大学获得学位 为了她和她瘾君子男友的海洛因吸食 习惯 她到处 卖肉 有时甚至把客人带到父母的家中 Patrice Katie and Hannah have all been advertised on the adult section of B a classified advertising website which includes subdivisions that range from escort domination fetish to body rubs Prostitution is illegal in the United States in all but a few counties in Nevada but Backpage which is run by two former journalists Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey is by most estimates the biggest online marketplace for buying and selling sex in America It has been under attack for several years from activists and politicians who accuse the site of facilitating the pimping out of under age girls In 2011 46 attorneys general sent the firm a letter demanding that it do more to fight sex trafficking on its website 她们三个在 B 一个分类广告网站 的成人板块中登有广告 成人 板块之下细分为 异性 社交陪同 性统治 恋物癖 和 推拿 除了内华达 州的几个郡 卖淫在美国是非法的 据大部分数据看来 由两名前记者吉姆 拉 尔金和迈克尔 拉塞运营的 Backpage 是全美最大的在线性交易市场 该网站近 年来遭到激进分子和政客的攻击 被控告为未成年女孩的拉皮条生意提供方便 46 名检察官联名寄给该公司一封信 要求对方在打击性交易方面做得更多 Backpage has defended itself with reference to the Communications Decency Act a federal law passed in 1996 that says that internet service providers are merely hosts and not publishers which means they cannot be held liable for whatever is posted on them by a third party The site s supporters make a less legalistic defence women who advertise themselves on the website do not have to walk the street with all the dangers that brings Sites like Backpage may also make it easier for law enforcement officers to identify those who are under age or have been coerced and to track down those responsible Backpage 以 通信礼仪法案 的条款为自己辩护 该联邦法案在 1996 年得到 通过 网络服务供应商仅是平台 而不是发布者 这意味着责任不在该网站 一方 而是作为上传者的第三方 网站的支持者作出情似合法的辩护 女孩 子只需在网站上登广告 而不需走在鱼龙混杂的街头 类似 Backpage 的网站可 以让执法者更容易核对谁是未成年少女 谁是被强迫的 从而追究他的责任 Thomas Dart the sheriff of Cook County does not see it that way He says that he has tried for years to work with Backpage to help the company clean up its adult section which is where around 70 of all sex adverts are posted The site became the market leader after C another classified ad site was pressed into shutting down its adult division in 2010 In just one recent month in spring B posted more than 1 4m ads in its adult escort section of which perhaps less than 1 are for something other than sex 库克郡的警长托马斯 达特并不认同他们的观点 他说多年来他尝试与 Backpage 合作 共同清理它的成人板块 全美约 70 的性广告刊登在该区 C 另一个分类广告网站 在 2010 年迫于外界压力而关闭它的成 人板块后 Backpage 成为该行业领头羊 在今年春天最后一个月 B 的 成人社交陪同 广告一个月就超过 140 万条 也许只有不到 1 与 性无关 After his appeals for co operation were ignored the sheriff went on the offensive On June 29th he sent a letter to MasterCard and Visa asking the two credit card companies to stop immediately the use of their cards to place ads on the adult section of Backpage To the sheriff s surprise both companies reacted almost instantly and 48 hours after Mr Dart s letter was made public MasterCard and Visa had stopped processing ad purchases on Backpage American Express another big credit card company stopped doing business with Backpage earlier this year 在合作呼吁被无视后 他仍屡败屡战 6 月 29 号他给万事达和维萨寄出一封信 请求这两家公司禁止人们在 Backpage 的成人板块支付广告时使用万事达卡和维 萨卡 让他感到意外的是 该信公开 48 小时后 两家公司几乎同时作出反应 相继停掉在 Backpage 上的广告支付业务 另一家大型信用卡公司美国运通 在今年早些时候就停止了与 Backpage 的生意来往 The firm is not responding in public to its ostracism by the credit card behemoths but on July 7th it gave them the finger by making all advertising on its adult section free Yet this is almost certainly only a temporary solution while Backpage works out how it can be paid easily in cash or with Bitcoin a digital currency because the sex ads are so lucrative According to conservative estimates Backpage rakes in 9m 10m every month from its adult section Mr Dart says he is not so naive as to imagine that he can end prostitution This is not a moral crusade he says But he wants to stop sex trafficking especially when it involves children 该公司就受两信用卡巨头排斥这事未对外界作任何表示 而在 7 月 7 日该网站 成人板块的广告全部免费 以表示对他们的不满 但几乎可以肯定 这仅仅是 权宜之计 Backpage 在想办法让人们用现金或比特币 一种电子货币 支付 因为成人广告是如此有利可图 据保守估计 Backpage 每个月可以在成人板块 盈利 900 万到 1000 万美元 达特表示他并不会天真地以为他可以结束卖淫嫖娼 这不是一个道德改革运动 他说 但他想阻止性交易 尤其是交易牵涉到儿童 的时候 His next move will be to t