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> "There's not a lot you can do about it, which makes you feel really helpless. I have friends who are considering leaving the business as a whole, just because
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
> "There's not a lot you can do about it, which makes you feel really helpless. I have friends who are considering leaving the business as a whole, just because Pornhub was such a big source of income."
I would guess for at least some of the public, sex workers leaving the business would be seen as a feature rather than a bug.
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoYes, me for example
- paulgb 6y agoOne of the performers quoted summed it up well in the article: > "The real target of these groups is not to help victims or fight illegal content on the internet, but to ban all forms of adult material." A few years ago I was doing some research to figure out how I felt about SESTA/FOSTA, and one of the things I quickly came to realize is that a lot of groups and politicians who are ostensibly anti-trafficking are actually anti-porn, and use the boogieman of trafficking to build a broader coalition than they could on a purely anti-porn agenda.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoIt's not really a secret. Even when actual "trafficking" charges get filed in court, the most common type is prosecuting a woman for trafficking herself.
- mst 6y agoOn top of that, anti-trafficking NGOs tend to be unnecessarily friendly with law enforcement groups and both get more funding by exaggerating the problem.