SESTA Archives - Mike South

When Hookers go Hungry

Hamilton Steele — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 22:23:19 +0000

When hookers go hungry it’s a symptom of a dystopian society. When hookers go hungry is when it’s time to re-examine our relationship with government and big tech. The world’s oldest profession is showing itself to be the proverbial canary in a coal mine when it comes to authoritarianism. The tools of oppression, developed by […]

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ACLU: Sex Work is Real Work, and It’s Time to Treat it That Way

Sam Langhorne — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:32:31 +0000

Long overdue and quite welcome from the ACLU: Sex workers aren’t always a part of the conversation about police brutality, but they should be. Police regularly target, harass, and assault sex workers or people they think are sex workers. The police usually get away with the abuse because sex workers fear being arrested if they […]

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Sex Worker Rights Advocates Raise the Alarms about EARN IT on International Whores Day #IWD

Sam Langhorne — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:42:44 +0000

Since its inception nearly 45 years ago, International Whores Day reclaims a sometimes derogatory word to set the tone for a day of political action.

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EFF: The Graham-Blumenthal ‘EARN IT Act’ is an Attack on Online Speech and Security

xxxReporter — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:36:25 +0000

Like FOSTA-SESTA, this proposed bill chips away at the protections offered by Communications Decency Act section 230 under the guise of stopping human trafficking. Members of Congress have mounted a major threat to your freedom of speech and privacy online. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently introduced a bill that would undermine […]

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GFE Dating, Data Mining and Old King Kong: Trinity St. Clair & Gregg Dodson Are At It Again

xxxReporter — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 01:08:57 +0000

Readers of this site will be familiar with porn star Trinity St. Clair, her partner Gregg Dodson, and the duo’s latest endeavor, the escort website GFE Dating. This scheme involves offering escorts a “client verification service”, but in the hands of the crafty Ms. St. Clair, it also poses a grave threat of data mining. Their […]

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Decriminalizing Sex Work Is A Life Or Death Issue

Voice For Reason — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:25:41 +0000

“For sex workers, the ongoing fight against stigmatization and criminalization is life or death,” writes Gaby Del Valle in a powerful essay. “If SESTA and FOSTA has had any positive effect whatsoever, though, is that it has encouraged a new wave of sex-worker led activism.” Earlier this month, Lily Allen issued an unusual public statement via […]

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EFF on Fed Court Dismissing FOSTA Suit Without Ruling on Statute’s Constitutionality

Voice For Reason — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 23:51:00 +0000

A federal court considering a challenge to the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017, or FOSTA, dismissed the case on Monday without ruling on the statute’s constitutionality. EFF and partner law firms filed a lawsuit in June against the Justice Department on behalf of two human rights organizations, a […]

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Adult Performer Advocacy Committee @apacsocial Faces More Trouble

XXX Insider — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 20:54:58 +0000

The APAC – also known as the performer branch of the Free Speech Coalition didn’t get off to a good start. While the idea behind the APAC is excellent, performers working to help performers, they have had their fair share of controversy in their short history. It turns out today isn’t any different. APAC is having […]

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YouTube Banned An Erotic Film Production Company After It Posted Interviews With Sex Workers

porn news — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:18:46 +0000

According to a recent article that appeared on Motherboard, film producer Erika Lust had her YouTube account shut down and was banned from YouTube after a third strike against the channel. YouTube shut down an adult film production channel after it posted a series interviewing sex workers about their trade. Erika Lust, a Barcelona-based erotic […]

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Some prefer to escort than to take out student loans

Kelli — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 01:25:48 +0000

I was going through one of my old hard drives and I found an article from back in 2011 while I was with Bluebird that dealt with the issue of escorting. Although it was written 7 years ago, in light of FOSTA/SESTA, I think it’s more relevant today than ever. With tuition fees set to […]

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