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Exactly. The whole goal originally was to counter online sex trafficking which is easy to be for, not for religious zealots to "censor nipples" as some here who
by UberFly 5y ago
Exactly. The whole goal originally was to counter online sex trafficking which is easy to be for, not for religious zealots to "censor nipples" as some here who probably didn't read the wired article think. It's just that like everything there are unintended consequences.
- loeg 5y agoThe goal was to shut down online prostitution; trafficking is just a performative excuse.
- UberFly 5y agoDon't pretend trafficking wasn't/isn't a major problem made even bigger and easier by the internet. Here's one example: https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-allegedly-trafficked-backpage-legislation-brings-closure/story?id=54390501 https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-allegedly-trafficked-backpag...
- loeg 5y agoThis is not responsive to my comment.
- Bandeau 5y agoit was never clear that FOSTA / SESTA was the solution. Law enforcement came out against the law because the law makes their job harder. Before Craigslist and Backpage cooperated with them in turning over data and traffickers. Now the traffickers are using other methods or working with less LEO friendly operators.
- dbspin 5y agoYou have cause and effect backwards. Historically 'trafficking' meant human trafficking for the purposes of prostitution. The terminology creep to extend that to any kind of organised prostitution (for example brothels), is absolutely the result of the Christian right, as is the war on porn. Here's one piece Wired ran in 2015 exploring that - https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/03/christians-and-sex-trafficking-how-evangelicals-made-it-a-cause-celebre.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/03/christians-and-sex-... Here's a deeper journal article exploring the same territory from 2014 - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5305/amerjintelaw.108.4.0609?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5305/amerjintelaw.108.4.0609...
- zozbot234 5y agoUnfortunately, normalizing organised prostitution creates what amounts to a safe haven for human trafficking - this is a key part of the debate. It really seems to be the case that a voluntary mass market in "organized prostitution" is in fact unsustainable because any such attempt will be abused by human traffickers. Niche escorting services may survive, but only because their focus on perceived quality makes them less vulnerable to being taken over in this manner - and it's not clear so far how a separate, more permissive regime for these more resilent services could be created as a matter of law.