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> obvious underage sex trafficking on their platforms. Where and how does this happen? Do you have data? Can you cite a single instance of a pedophile ring was
by cornholio 9y ago
> obvious underage sex trafficking on their platforms.
Where and how does this happen? Do you have data? Can you cite a single instance of a pedophile ring was using open platforms in an "obvious" fashion to promote their product - as opposed to darknet/secret forums that don't care about SESTA? In the unlikely cases where it does happen, how do you think the majority of sex-service consumers would react to being offered underage sex?
This seems to be a classic example of using a fringe issue - online pedophiles - to justify a major encroachment against civil liberties. In this case driven by a puritanical position that in fact wants to declare war against all forms of prostitution.
With the only practical effect of waging war against the prostitutes themselves by denying them access to online platforms and pushing them straight into the hands of organized human trafficking rings. The consumers will not stop demanding sex services and they will get them somehow.
Here what sexworkers themselves have to say about it:
http://www.new.swopusa.org/2018/03/02/house-passing-of-misleading-fosta-bill-causes-country-wide-outrage/ http://www.new.swopusa.org/2018/03/02/house-passing-of-misle...
- IAmEveryone 9y ago"Backpage" was the name I believe. The was plenty of evidence of their collaboration, including the rewording of ads to make it less obvious how young, exactly, the girls on offer were. Note that even though my comment above received the full ire of HN, I do not necessarily support this legislation. I just think the article's game of 7-degrees-of-seperation and guilt by association are fundamentally weak arguments.
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