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Remember when Kamala Harris helped shut down Backpage?

Courtney Baldwin, a youth organizer and human trafficking survivor, reminded voters at the DNC that Harris helped take down the classified site often used for sex work — and, prosecutors alleged, sex trafficking.

Sex workers who used Backpage to screen clients, however, have said the website’s shutdown has made them less safe.

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