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Backpage has been investigated for human traffiking and the sex trade https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/can-prosecutors-stop-child-sex-traffic

by vivekd 10y ago

Backpage has been investigated for human traffiking and the sex trade https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/can-prosecutors-stop-child-sex-trafficking-without-breaking-the-internet https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/can-prose... and here is an article on the link between human trafficking and internet pornography http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johnhenry-westen/want-to-stop-sex-traffick_b_6563338.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johnhenry-westen/want-to-stop-...

wyldfire 10y ago
The evidence in the HuffPo article amounts to: 1. Testimony from Fight The New Drug (FTND, a non-profit) regarding anecdotes about how non-consensual porn is produced to look as if it's consensual. 2. FTND research that states those who engage in trafficking have watched porn. 3. Testimony from the CEO of FTND regarding interviews of over 20 performers who state that they were forced or coerced to produce porn. 4. Testimony from a professor of sociology that "As an academic, a sociologist, and mother, I believe [increase in demand for trafficking] is the way men are shaped by society". 5. FTND summary of studies (specifics not disclosed by HuffPo, but perhaps available at FTND): "men who go to prostitutes are twice as likely to have watched a porn film in the last year compared to the general population." 6. FTND study "[FTND] cites a 2007 study of 854 women in nine countries that found 49% of women “said that porn had been made of them while they were in prostitution, and 47% said they had been harmed by men who had either forced or tried to force their victims to do things the men had seen in porn." I find all of this remarkably unconvincing to support "if porn, then trafficking." It might make sense that "if trafficking, then porn" though.

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Backpage has been investigated for human traffiking and the sex trade https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/can-prosecutors-stop-child-sex-traffic

by vivekd 10y ago

wyldfire 10y ago
The evidence in the HuffPo article amounts to: 1. Testimony from Fight The New Drug (FTND, a non-profit) regarding anecdotes about how non-consensual porn is produced to look as if it's consensual. 2. FTND research that states those who engage in trafficking have watched porn. 3. Testimony from the CEO of FTND regarding interviews of over 20 performers who state that they were forced or coerced to produce porn. 4. Testimony from a professor of sociology that "As an academic, a sociologist, and mother, I believe [increase in demand for trafficking] is the way men are shaped by society". 5. FTND summary of studies (specifics not disclosed by HuffPo, but perhaps available at FTND): "men who go to prostitutes are twice as likely to have watched a porn film in the last year compared to the general population." 6. FTND study "[FTND] cites a 2007 study of 854 women in nine countries that found 49% of women “said that porn had been made of them while they were in prostitution, and 47% said they had been harmed by men who had either forced or tried to force their victims to do things the men had seen in porn." I find all of this remarkably unconvincing to support "if porn, then trafficking." It might make sense that "if trafficking, then porn" though.