Red Alert: The Feds Shut Down an Escort Site

By Siouxsie Q Wednesday, Jul 9, 2014

Last month, thousands of Californians lost their jobs overnight. On June 25, I began getting frantic phone calls from friends and colleagues about the shutdown of the sex work advertising platform, MyRedbook.com. By the afternoon, I had reporters calling me asking for comment. By the early evening, I was in tears. News outlets reported what the sex worker grapevine had already been buzzing with rumors of The FBI had shut down MyRedbook and raided the Mountain View home of the two people who had allegedly been running…