Ashton Kutcher's Brouhaha with Village Voice

Ashton Kutcher and the Village Voice Sex Trafficking Twitter Feud Yields Ad Loss.  There will be a slideshow on the link: 


"Ashton Kutcher and the Village Voice are locked in a Twitter battle, disputing the facts behind sex trafficking and calling each other out on their respective examples of hypocricy.
It was on when the Village Voice published a cover story Wednesday titled "Real Men Get Their Facts Straight." The piece argued that there were 8,263 arrests for child prostitution in the U.S. during the last decade, compared to the 100,000 to 300,000 children Kutcher cited in his anti-trafficking campaign "Real Men Don't Buy Girls."
Now, Kutcher has roped in Voice advertisers. He tweeted to American Airlines, Columbia University, Disney and Domino's on Friday:

"...are you aware that you are advertising on a site that supports the Sale of Human Beings (slavery)?"

Kutcher was referring to the Voice's Backpage.com personal ads, which police and elected officials have accused of facilitating trafficking.
Since the feud erupted, American Airlines has pulled its ads and responded to Kutcher in a direct message on Twitter:

"Heads up: Ads should be down w/in the hour. Blank ads are being served for now."

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Below is my opinion:
Ashton Kutcher and the Village Voice Sex Trafficking Twitter Feud Yields Ad Loss. The issue for some is whether or not Ashton Kutcher is a "moral authority"­. That is not the point. The reality is that Village Voice is enabling, and endorsing prostituti­on vis a vis the adult ads that they publish. Whether or not a child is sold into slavery by a destitute family in some 3rd world nation, the fact is that countless children are abandoned worldwide. These lost children eventually end up as bait in adult ads. According to all the online research I have done on this issue, the sex trade is predominan­tly run by Nigerian Crime Lords and Drug Cartels. As a person who appreciate­s Ashton's consciousn­ess, I sponsor the education for a child in Nepal, so she will have options in her life. Ashton's point is crystal clear: Village Voice, by their own actions of publishing adult ads, is facilitati­ng a moral and criminal outrage against children, some from infancy and upward. Innocent children forced into sex slave traffickin­g. Everything else is merely background noise.