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bemusedlybespectacled: etoiledunord: solacekames: melancoholic-girl: solacekames: psy-faerie: psy-faerie: The effects so far of SESTA / FOSTA For anyone who doesn’t understand lots of sites and companies are starting to completely ban any kind of sexual content because of the new SESTA and FOSTA bills The worst effect of this: removing any way for sex workers to talk to each other, screen clients and conduct business over the internet. Removing their agency, pushing survival workers onto the street and increasing their death rate. No! Good for this. They have been pushing for this for good reason. Parents of children being trafficked, but websites doing nothing to stop it. Finally, things are being done. Making it harder for your shitty boyfriends/girlfriends/husband/wives to cheat on you. Let’s be honest most of sex worker clientele is cheaters. It promotes promiscuity so yeah, sorry not sorry. I don’t think we should be glorifying that industry at all. You’re saying that you care more about punishing sex workers than protecting children, because that’s exactly what this bill will do. Sex Workers Are Not Collateral Damage: Kate D’Adamo on FOSTA and SESTA - March 6, 2018 SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act, the Senate version of the bill, would have been disastrous enough—it would create a trafficking-related loophole in section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law which allows the internet to function by not holding service providers liable for user posting content. In practice, that would outlaw all sex worker advertising sites by opening them up to endless lawsuits, since any of them can be used for trafficking. That would send vulnerable people back into the streets and other dangerous venues and back into the hands of potentially abusive managers. Just think about the economic panic which followed the closures of Craigslist, MyRedBook, TNA, and Backpage’s adult section and multiply it a thousandfold if you want to imagine the impact this could have on the most defenseless members of our community. And as usual, when the sex trade is driven further underground, trafficking victims suffer as everyone around them is criminalized further, and they are further isolated with no one to turn to but their traffickers. But the version that passed the House by an overwhelming majority last Thursday, FOSTA, the Allow States And Victims To Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, was even worse. It criminalizes “promoting” and “facilitating” prostitution without defining these terms, placing vital sex worker online harm reduction resources which both voluntary and trafficked sex workers rely on at risk, such as the verification sites and bad call lists we use to avoid violent clients. This blog you’re reading now could fall in the crosshairs of this legislation as well, as could other sites of sex worker community, making it much harder for an already closeted and stigmatized group of marginalized people to forge vital social and political connections with each other. FOSTA also includes damaging new additions such as a retiring Republican congressman’s clause expanding the Mann Act. It is a bill that has morphed into something much broader and more hurtful than its cosponsors originally envisioned, with law enforcement, social services, the ACLU, EFF, the National Organization for Women, AIDS United and even anti-trafficking organizations as well as the Department of Justice opposing it. Yet representatives rushed to embrace it in a show of bipartisan cooperation. Another thing that scares me about this legislation is how quick companies have been to act on it. This hasn’t been signed into law yet, and already huge multinational corporations are taking drastic measures not only to adhere to it, but also to go further than it requires. The legislation supposedly shouldn’t affect fiction authors, but in response to it, Amazon has reclassified swaths of romance writers as erotica writers, significantly limiting the ways in which they can promote themselves, and thereby significantly limiting their sales. Even if companies like Microsoft only investigate reported violations of their new TOS, that will take an incredible amount of extra resources, likely mostly dedicated to minor infractions that have no relevance whatsoever to sex trafficking. There is no way that Jeff Bezos cares more about appealing to the Purity Brigade than he cares about profits. And I just do not understand why companies are going all out on this so soon. It’s utterly bizarre, and a month ago I would have said it would never happen, that these companies would have fought tooth and nail to avoid these changes. I also have no idea how the changes to American branches of companies will affect their branches in other countries. But if this actually gets implemented as-is, I’m sure that it will be one of the nails in the coffin of the internet. Everyone who’s like “but the children!”: Explain to me how getting rid of sexual content on the internet stops children from being trafficked. Explain to me how holding a person responsible for someone else’s language stops children from being trafficked. Explain to me how punishing consenting adults for expressing sexual interest (whether it’s by writing erotica, posting a personal ad, or using Skype for long-distance sex) stops children from being trafficked. -- source link