I try to keep my blog posts light and fun, but I feel like I have to express my disappointment that SESTA/FOSTA passed. A bill that on paper sounds like it's just trying to protect the victims of sex-trafficking, a group of people who of course need protection. But in reality, this bill makes it harder to identify and help them, harder to catch traffickers, puts consensual sex workers at risk, as well as blatantly legalizing a censorship on the internet we haven't seen before.
Sex workers, survivors of sex trafficking, lawyers, proponents of free speech, they all opposed SESTA/FOSTA. So why did it pass? So some people who think sex work and sex trafficking are the same thing can pat themselves on the back, and congratulate themselves for their moral superiority.
No one is quite sure yet what this will mean for places where people legally advertise adult services (Extra Lunch Money, MyFreeCams, blogs, even SG, etc) but they are sure that it isn't good.
I'll add some links that explain WHY this bill is so harmful to so many, in different ways.
https://stopsesta.org/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-internet
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjnwn/fosta-sesta-vote-passed-senate
https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-bill-fosta.html
