The fact that porn workers have always been popular scapegoats for the broadest strokes of politics and media is hardly news for those who work in the sex industry. There are myths claiming pornography leads to violence and there is the historical fact that porn workers have protected our civil rights. Protecting our First Amendment… Continue reading SESTA Vs. Stormy Daniels
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Post-SESTA/FOSTA Self-Censoring for Twitter, Reddit, and other Social Media
In the immediate aftermath of SESTA/FOSTA passing, before it’s even been signed into law, we’re already seeing discussion of sex work on the internet hit. Some companies, like Patreon, seem to have preemptively changed their policies last year while the legislation was being written. Others have started publicly changing their policies today and it should… Continue reading Post-SESTA/FOSTA Self-Censoring for Twitter, Reddit, and other Social Media
Sex Workers Are Not Collateral Damage: Kate D’Adamo on FOSTA and SESTA
Both sex workers’ rights and anti-trafficking organizations have been watching a bill winding its way through Congress for a while. Here at Tits and Sass, we’ve had plenty to say about it. SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act, the Senate version of the bill, would have been disastrous enough—it would create a trafficking-related loophole… Continue reading Sex Workers Are Not Collateral Damage: Kate D’Adamo on FOSTA and SESTA
SESTA’s Growing Threat To The Sex Worker Internet
You can always count on a corporation to look out for its own interests. An existential threat to their business model will even trump the good PR that comes from beating on everyone’s favorite marginalized punching bags, sex workers). So, until recently, major tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and Google opposed SESTA,the Stop Enabling… Continue reading SESTA’s Growing Threat To The Sex Worker Internet