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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

How Backpage Became MILFS.com

The Backpage.com URL now redirects to MILFS.com, a webcamming platform that offers users live erotic chat and pornographic shows with a cornucopia of women who may or may not actually be moms.

In case anyone isn't aware, here's what the acronym MILF stands for…though as Julian Sanchez quipped on BlueSky, perhaps in this instance, it could also stand for "Moms I'd Like to Federally Seize."

Backpage was once a thriving platform for classified advertisements, particularly favored by people posting "adult" ads. But the federal government decided there was too much free speech happening on Backpage, so it seized the website and put its founders and executives on trial for facilitating prostitution.

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