naasad: anti-mattering: solacekames: melancoholic-girl:solacekames:psy-faerie:psy-faerie: The
naasad: anti-mattering: 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. If anyone wants a safer way to communicate, Line has end-to-end encryption by default. It’s also based in Japan so it’s not governed by these kinds of laws. Y'all need to watch Les Mis and find out why a lot of sex workers work in their profession. I mean, just as many do cause they like it, and that’s not bad either. Some of you seem firmly set in the “den of iniquity” mindset and really need to consider like ALL other points of view. Les Mis would be a starting point. It was for me. -- source link