Drukpa Kunley
March 30th, 2018, 10:22 PM
NCOSE And Demand Abolition Have Just Scored A Huge Win In The U.S. Congress And Now They Are Coming For More Of Your Rights
"Men who purchase sex are not ‘Johns’ they are rapists and abusers.” ~ National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE)
www.twitter.com/ncose
https://mobile.twitter.com/ncose
https://endsexualexploitation.org
"Demand Abolition seeks to abolish the illegal commercial sex industry in the United States by eradicating the demand for purchased sex."
"We must start tackling the root cause of sexual exploitation: Demand."
https://www.demandabolition.org
www.twitter.com/demandabolition
https://mobile.twitter.com/demandabolition
Congress just legalized sex censorship: "Sex work" is not another word for trafficking
The politicians have voted this Morality in Media (NCOSE) mess into law.
The worst possible legislation curtailing free speech online passed and sex censorship bill FOSTA-SESTA is here to stay.
Websites are removing content and communities wholesale, the result of FOSTA-SESTA making safer working conditions more difficult by criminalizing digital conversations about sex work, screening tools and discussions about how to be safe doing it.
FOSTA-SESTA has begun the largest wave of censorship the open internet may ever see.
Hours after the announcement, everything from the mere discussion of sex work to client screening and safe advertising networks began getting systematically erased from the open internet. Thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — of women lost their income. Pushed out of safe online spaces and toward street corners. So were any and all victims of sex-trafficking that law enforcement might've been able to find on the open internet.
It's already an unmitigated disaster for free speech in America. Which was, of course, predicted. There's no mistaking that FOSTA-SESTA violates the First Amendment; it plainly stated that "this statute implicates constitutionally protected speech."
It's unconstitutional, but the damage is already being done. Since FOSTA-SESTA, online companies, always dangerously prudish with their algorithms, or hypocritical with their free speech rhetoric, appear to be in a rush to proverbially herd sex workers out of the airlock into places where no one can hear us scream.
Under FOSTA-SESTA, we'd most likely have no Stormy Daniels. That Stormy Daniels is making headlines while the absolute worst is happening to sex workers online is not lost on anyone.
In a titillating cross-section of lawmaking and scandal we have on one side Stormy Daniels suing 45 for unlawful payoffs and calling him to account publicly for his associates' threats against her, and on the other side, legislation that has already silenced common sex workers, with the overlaying intersections of race and class; good whores and bad whores; victims and perpetrators; and misinformation all around.
Daniels is a perfect lens with which to view the exact way FOSTA-SESTA harms one of America's largest at-risk populations. The level of sex worker whose lives will be harmed by FOSTA-SESTA are not at the same level of fame and notoriety as Stormy Daniels.
Daniels won't be caught up in a sting sending her to jail because she had to work as a streetwalker to help pay her rent and feed her children. Daniels won't have to carry a weapon to defend herself when she meets with a new client.
Most importantly, Daniels's children won't be woken up to the news that their mother didn't come home last night because she was murdered by a serial killer, a class of criminal who have always targeted sex workers from Jack the Ripper to the Green River Killer. Poor and working class sex workers, regardless of gender identity, will pay that price.
And for a short moment in history, the advent of the open internet reduced that horrible cost.
Sex workers are right to be scared. They're facing all this sudden and casually disastrous censorship as a threat to their safety and livelihoods, and are well aware that few are willing or brave enough to fight for their free speech and human rights. Even sex writers such as myself know this; any of us who've tried to make a living off anything relating to sex online has a list of products, services, banks and payment processors, social networks, companies, and business tools that everyone else takes for granted — that we are expressly prohibited from using.
It has been a speech issue for a long time, one most people have turned away from as Instagram censors more nipples, as PayPal freezes and shutters the accounts of sex bloggers and book authors, Tumblr deep-sixes erotic artists, and more.
If you thought all that was bad enough, just you wait. FOSTA-SESTA is making us disappear before your very eyes — and it will affect you, too.
Violet Blue
"Men who purchase sex are not ‘Johns’ they are rapists and abusers.” ~ National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE)
www.twitter.com/ncose
https://mobile.twitter.com/ncose
https://endsexualexploitation.org
"Demand Abolition seeks to abolish the illegal commercial sex industry in the United States by eradicating the demand for purchased sex."
"We must start tackling the root cause of sexual exploitation: Demand."
https://www.demandabolition.org
www.twitter.com/demandabolition
https://mobile.twitter.com/demandabolition
Congress just legalized sex censorship: "Sex work" is not another word for trafficking
The politicians have voted this Morality in Media (NCOSE) mess into law.
The worst possible legislation curtailing free speech online passed and sex censorship bill FOSTA-SESTA is here to stay.
Websites are removing content and communities wholesale, the result of FOSTA-SESTA making safer working conditions more difficult by criminalizing digital conversations about sex work, screening tools and discussions about how to be safe doing it.
FOSTA-SESTA has begun the largest wave of censorship the open internet may ever see.
Hours after the announcement, everything from the mere discussion of sex work to client screening and safe advertising networks began getting systematically erased from the open internet. Thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — of women lost their income. Pushed out of safe online spaces and toward street corners. So were any and all victims of sex-trafficking that law enforcement might've been able to find on the open internet.
It's already an unmitigated disaster for free speech in America. Which was, of course, predicted. There's no mistaking that FOSTA-SESTA violates the First Amendment; it plainly stated that "this statute implicates constitutionally protected speech."
It's unconstitutional, but the damage is already being done. Since FOSTA-SESTA, online companies, always dangerously prudish with their algorithms, or hypocritical with their free speech rhetoric, appear to be in a rush to proverbially herd sex workers out of the airlock into places where no one can hear us scream.
Under FOSTA-SESTA, we'd most likely have no Stormy Daniels. That Stormy Daniels is making headlines while the absolute worst is happening to sex workers online is not lost on anyone.
In a titillating cross-section of lawmaking and scandal we have on one side Stormy Daniels suing 45 for unlawful payoffs and calling him to account publicly for his associates' threats against her, and on the other side, legislation that has already silenced common sex workers, with the overlaying intersections of race and class; good whores and bad whores; victims and perpetrators; and misinformation all around.
Daniels is a perfect lens with which to view the exact way FOSTA-SESTA harms one of America's largest at-risk populations. The level of sex worker whose lives will be harmed by FOSTA-SESTA are not at the same level of fame and notoriety as Stormy Daniels.
Daniels won't be caught up in a sting sending her to jail because she had to work as a streetwalker to help pay her rent and feed her children. Daniels won't have to carry a weapon to defend herself when she meets with a new client.
Most importantly, Daniels's children won't be woken up to the news that their mother didn't come home last night because she was murdered by a serial killer, a class of criminal who have always targeted sex workers from Jack the Ripper to the Green River Killer. Poor and working class sex workers, regardless of gender identity, will pay that price.
And for a short moment in history, the advent of the open internet reduced that horrible cost.
Sex workers are right to be scared. They're facing all this sudden and casually disastrous censorship as a threat to their safety and livelihoods, and are well aware that few are willing or brave enough to fight for their free speech and human rights. Even sex writers such as myself know this; any of us who've tried to make a living off anything relating to sex online has a list of products, services, banks and payment processors, social networks, companies, and business tools that everyone else takes for granted — that we are expressly prohibited from using.
It has been a speech issue for a long time, one most people have turned away from as Instagram censors more nipples, as PayPal freezes and shutters the accounts of sex bloggers and book authors, Tumblr deep-sixes erotic artists, and more.
If you thought all that was bad enough, just you wait. FOSTA-SESTA is making us disappear before your very eyes — and it will affect you, too.
Violet Blue