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You may disagree with the method and whether it is effective or not, but if the goal is to stop sex trafficking then that indeed should be a high priority.
by waynecochran 10y ago
You may disagree with the method and whether it is effective or not, but if the goal is to stop sex trafficking then that indeed should be a high priority.
- morgante 10y agoStopping people from looking at porn is, at best, orthogonal to sex trafficking. This is a bunch of religious zealots trying to control others under the guise of humanitarianism. It's a classic technique: who can argue with sex trafficking as a cause? So just wrap up hideous legislation in that disguise.
- mst 10y ago> who can argue with sex trafficking as a cause? Anybody who thinks the police raping prostitutes is a bad thing.
- TheGrumpyBrit 10y agoThere seems to be a creeping habit of quietly slipping in draconian legislation as a rider to otherwise routine proposals. This feels like a slightly different approach in that the primary legislation has a nice easily defendable title. Who wouldn't want to stop human trafficking? Unfortunately, it seems that there is little interest in challenging this behaviour, presumably because the only ones who are in a position to directly challenge those doing it also have a vested interest in keeping such behaviour out of the public eye.
- module0000 10y ago> Stopping people from looking at porn "Porn" is open to a lot of interpretation. What is pornography... women wearing colored clothing? Pictures of Islamic women's ankles? It's a slippery slope as they say, and incredibly subjective.
- morgante 10y agoI know it when I see it.
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago>"Porn" is open to a lot of interpretation. No, it's open to completely arbitrary redefinition for the sake of an authority figure's personal power. If this bill passes, I give an 85% chance that at some point someone will claim the Democratic Party's website is child pornography. I am willing to bet money on this. A power-grab is a power-grab.
- mst 10y agoGiven "stop sex trafficking" usually means "empower the police to harass and often rape sex workers", I really don't want any legislature prioritising it. I'd recommend reading up on sex workers' rights movements - you'll find that, in general, "anti-trafficking" operations mostly hurt the very people they're claiming to protect while appealing to people's prudishness to deny the agency of the women in question when they dare to disagree.
- wcarron 10y agoPersonally, I doubt it. Feels like a wolf in sheep's clothing. Rep says: "It's to stop human sex trafficking save children!" History says: "It's to push my religious agenda and reduce the privacy and freedoms of the populace under the guise of helping the disenfranchised"
- venomsnake 10y agoIs there any recent development I am unaware of that makes SC the sex trafficking hotspot of the United States?
- heartbreak 10y agoIf the Upstate is a hotbed for sex trafficking, then it only makes sense that the Greenville County Sheriffs Office spent $26,000 over the course of a year at a single strip club "investigating" illegal prostitution. Source: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article25716517.html http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article25716517.html
- belorn 10y agoIf we are going to disregard the cause and effect, then there is such better methods available to deal with this high priority problem. Lets just eliminate free movement of people and require travel paper for anyone moving between cities and states. People may disagree with the method, but free movement is what enables sex trafficking. Drastic problem require drastic measures, and if the goal is to stop sex trafficking then indeed it should be applied, right?
- Spooky23 10y agoIf you want to stop human trafficking, enforce labor laws in Chinese restaurants.