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You 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
by scottie_m 9y ago
You 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.