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angelatc
03-24-2018, 10:45 AM
https://nypost.com/2018/03/23/craigslist-drops-personal-ads-due-to-sex-trafficking-bill/


Craigslist has yanked its personal ads section in the wake of an anti-online sex trafficking bill that passed in Congress this week.

The Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA, makes websites criminally liable for content that its users post, including prostitution ads and sex-trafficking content.

Craigslist — whose personals include bawdy categories such as casual encounters — said it pulled ads because it wasn’t worth running afoul of the new law.

“Any tool or service can be misused,” the website said in a statement. “We can’t take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day.”

It added, “To the millions of spouses, partners, and couples who met through craigslist, we wish you every happiness!”

Reddit also banned sex-worker subreddits, including Escorts, Male Escorts, Hookers and SugarDaddy, shortly after the bill was passed.

Previously, websites like Craigslist and Backpage faced broad protections from legal liability for user-posted content.

FOSTA has been criticized by some lawmakers and sex workers for making it harder to combat sex trafficking.

“The failure to understand the technological side effects of this bill — specifically that it will become harder to expose sex-traffickers, while hamstringing innovation — will be something that this Congress will regret,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) told CNN earlier this month.

Wyden and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) voted against FOSTA, which passed 97-2 in the Senate on Wednesday. It is likely to be signed into law by President Trump.

And another bit of freedom slips away into that good night.

Brian4Liberty
03-24-2018, 11:13 AM
makes websites criminally liable for content that its users post

Isn't that special? The precedent is set. Next will be liability for "fake news", as determined by the politburo. The end of pesky free speech is in sight.

"It's for the children!"

XNavyNuke
03-24-2018, 11:22 AM
Here I thought the thirteenth amendment had already done away with slavery and involuntary servitude in this country.

XNN

Dr.3D
03-24-2018, 11:32 AM
Guess folks will just have to go back to the online dating sites for such activities.

angelatc
03-24-2018, 11:41 AM
Guess folks will just have to go back to the online dating sites for such activities.

If you want to go truly old school, the sports pages in my local newspaper always had tons of ads for escorts.

Raginfridus
03-24-2018, 11:53 AM
Here I thought the thirteenth amendment had already done away with slavery and involuntary servitude in this country.

XNNOh snap!

And I thought the 14th guaranteed my citizenship:


https://youtu.be/y4xV4MTnCdc

acptulsa
03-24-2018, 11:56 AM
Doesn't look like their asses are covered to me.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/d/therapeutic-services/search/thp

Raginfridus
03-24-2018, 11:57 AM
If you want to go truly old school, the sports pages in my local newspaper always had tons of ads for escorts.Do papers still have a "personals" section?

juleswin
03-24-2018, 12:29 PM
Everybody knows that if you are looking for escorts, you go to backpageDOTcom not craigslist, am I right Danke?

Origanalist
03-24-2018, 12:48 PM
Doesn't look like their asses are covered to me.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/d/therapeutic-services/search/thp

Nope. They keep making laws and people keep going around them, nothing new under the sun.

dannno
04-02-2018, 05:33 PM
Rand Paul and Wyden were the sole "Nay" votes in the Senate.

Trump has yet to sign. Looks like Craigslist is possibly trying to draw some attention to the bill


https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA



US Congress just passed HR 1865, "FOSTA", seeking to subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully.


Any tool or service can be misused. We can't take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day.


To the millions of spouses, partners, and couples who met through craigslist, we wish you every happiness!



FOSTA: The New Anti-Sex-Trafficking Legislation May Not End the Internet, But It’s Not Good Law Either

https://lawfareblog.com/fosta-new-anti-sex-trafficking-legislation-may-not-end-internet-its-not-good-law-either

angelatc
04-02-2018, 06:59 PM
No way is Trump going to veto a sex trafficking bill, dude.

Suzanimal
05-06-2018, 09:30 AM
Pimps Are Preying on Sex Workers Pushed Off the Web Because of FOSTA-SESTA


The last time Katie tried to leave her pimp, he beat her with a tire iron.

“Time heals physical wounds,” Katie, whose name has been changed to protect her safety, told me over the phone. “I have been independent for years now and away from him, but I’m still mentally trying to get over, you know, everything he’s done.”

In March, Congress passed the Fight Sex Trafficking Online Act (FOSTA), a controversial mashup bill packaged with the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) that was framed by proponents as being anti-sex trafficking. It punishes websites for discussions of prostitution and the sex trade, under the guise of anti-sex trafficking efforts.

But because of this new law, exploitative and abusive people like Katie’s former pimp are swooping back into sex workers’ lives. They’re capitalizing on the confusion and fear this law has created, as online communities where sex workers found and vetted clients and offered each other support are disappearing.

What are you going to do without me, now? exploiters say, flooding former victims’ inboxes and texts. You need me. According to sex workers I’ve spoken with, this is a common message.

“Pimps seem to be coming out of the woodwork since this all happened,” Laura LeMoon, a sex trafficking survivor, writer, and co-founder and director of harm reduction nonprofit Safe Night Access Project Seattle, told me in an email. “They’re taking advantage of the situation sex workers are in. This is why I say FOSTA/SESTA have actually increased trafficking. I’ve had pimps contacting me. They’re leeches. They make money off of [sex workers’] misfortune.”

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For sex workers, all of this marks the erasure of vital online communities. “I always say community is the best defense against trafficking, but I want to make it concrete for people who aren't in the sex trade and don't know just how vital community is to preventing trafficking,” Lola, a community organizer with Survivors Against SESTA, told me in an email.

According to Lola, online communities provide all sorts of supports to sex workers. They help them address any immediate survival needs, such as finding shelter or food. They can provide warnings that a potential client is violent, or check in on their well-being, or help them find access to know-your-rights training.

“SESTA has wiped clean essential spaces for all of that community, because it took away the online platforms and tools sex workers use to communicate,” Lola said. Even aside from making it harder for them to work, she said, it’s made workers an easier target for traffickers.

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpqvz/fosta-sesta-sex-work-and-trafficking