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Yes, I'm sure it works great for the upper middle class white escorts who are essentially small business owners. The issue is the effect that it has on traffic
by stale2002 9y ago
Yes, I'm sure it works great for the upper middle class white escorts who are essentially small business owners.
The issue is the effect that it has on trafficking, and that it makes trafficking much more profitable.
- noobermin 9y agoInstead of making assumptions about the people you believe you're saving, it would help to actually listen to them about what would help them and what wouldn't. Above I share an article from a former sex worker. Here is yet another that cites[0] sex workers as well. [0] https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-bill-fosta.html https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-bi...
- deft 9y agohow does that link invalidate the parent comment? No more details on who is saying "backpage is good". And I almost guarantee sex-trafficked women aren't the ones defending it. So why don't we listen to the victims of the crime the bill is about: sex-trafficking. NOT prostitution.
- girvo 9y agoBut they didn’t even need the damned bill to nail the Backpage owners. So what’s the point of the SESTA power grab?
- dragonwriter 9y agoThe point of the FOSTA power grabs is to make it easy to go after sites providing arms-length escort information with no or only incidental connection to trafficking and with none of the ancillary (money laundering, etc.) offenses in the Backpage or MyRedbook cases. SESTA seems mostly to function as a smokescreen for FOSTA (since it drives all the media attention to it and it's knowing involvement in trafficking requirement).
- lilililili 9y agoBackpage was not for middle class white escorts. Mostly black and Latina with some marginal white girls like crackheads and nutcases.