Category: fosta

Court reinstates lawsuit challenging online sex trafficking law

Post author By Randall
Post date January 26, 2020
Categories In constitution, first amendment, fosta, fosta-sesta, free speech, gear, Internet, law, lawsuit, Politics, sesta, sex trafficking, Tech

[ad_1] Critics have argued that FOSTA-SESTA’s language is too vague and affects many more people than sex traffickers, including sex workers looking for support, people advocating for legal prostitution and services like massages that are sometimes thinly-veiled ads for sexual services. The law has led Craigslist and other sites to shut down sex-related categories and […]

Democrats want to study FOSTA-SESTA's impact on sex workers online

Post author By Randall
Post date December 17, 2019
Categories In bill, congress, fosta, fosta-sesta, gear, house of representatives, Internet, Politics, prostitution, safe sex workers study act, senate, sesta, sex, sex trafficking, sex work, sex workers, sswsa, Tech

[ad_1] If you're concerned that FOSTA-SESTA seems built more to kick sex workers offline than to fight sex trafficking, you're not alone. House representatives and senators have introduced the Safe Sex Workers Study Act, a bill that would analyze the impac… [ad_2] Source link

Something’s wrong with the war on sex trafficking

Post author By Randall
Post date May 31, 2019
Categories In bad password, badpassword, business, eff, exploitation, Facebook, fosta, fosta-sesta, Google, Internet, Law Enforcement, opinion, palantir, Privacy, safer, Security, services, sex, sex trafficking, spotlight, Tech, thorn, Twitter

[ad_1] Thorn offers internet companies its content moderation tool “Safer,” and for law enforcement, its separate data-mining and user-profiling tool “Spotlight.” Both use data sources and AI to automate policing of sex content. Of Thorn’s 31 nonprofit partners, 27 target adults and vow to abolish consensual sex work under the banner of saving children from […]