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I'm saddened, but not surprised, that every post you're making in this thread is greyed-out.
by anonbanker 9y ago
I'm saddened, but not surprised, that every post you're making in this thread is greyed-out.
- busterarm 9y agoI have a bad habit of saying the right but uncomfortable thing. Also the average user of HN probably has zero exposure to sex work, other than maybe as a consumer. I grew up in Times Square, with street hookers on my corner. Some of my friends are/were sex workers. There's a lot of fear and anger around what's going on right now.
- scottie_m 9y agoYou really have a problem understanding that trafficking children isn’t “sex work” it’s kidnapping and rape, don’t you? Why is that? Is it just too inconvenient for your purposes to acknowledge that part of the discussion, and that’s your version of being right? Maybe it’s just that you’re not going to get much pushback from many here about the wisdom of legalizing prostitution, so you lean on that crutch when discussing the issues here? The problem is that Backpage was aiding and abetting something that has no relation to “sex work” unless your definition includes kidnapping and rape. tptacek 20 hours ago [-] They took ads they knew to be for child sex trafficking --- they had keyword matching for them! --- stripped the incriminating words from the ads, and ran them, pictures and all. How can you justify that? Put it together with the rest and it’s both illegal and immoral, and again, not about adult sex workers. If you care about the issue of legalizing prostitution, don’t get it tangled up in this mess.