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Press Release: Congress Advances EARN IT, Ignoring Sex Workers’ Continued Concerns
Sex Workers Warned You. You Didn’t Listen.
#section230 #EARNIT #FuckEARNIT #LetUsSurvive
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Sex Workers Warned You. You Didn’t Listen.
#section230 #EARNIT #FuckEARNIT #LetUsSurvive
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Hacking//Hustling, a collective of SWers, survivors, and accomplices working on technology issues, are outraged by yesterday’s unanimous Senate Judiciary Committee vote, which moves #EARNIT (S.3398) towards becoming law.
Good morning everyone following #EARNIT ! A long thread on what's happening today & updates on the bill. And S/O to the @hackinghustling team - it's been a long 36 hrs trying to stay up to speed. There'll be a longer recap later, b/c what happens today will change next steps (1/
Today #EARNIT (S.3398) is going to be heard in the Senate Judiciary Cmte. A committee isn't the full Senate, it's where a bill is 1st assigned for debate/editing - here is their website if you want to see members/what they do: judiciary.senate.gov (2/
That's why the call-in day was focused only on Senators who were going to hear it - only they get to debate/vote/edit. We're talking about like minute 1:30 in this video youtube.com/watch?v=FFroMQ… (3/
I just need to say - every 2 weeks is a reminder that Twitter/private companies are arms of policing. I write about #sexwork policy for an advertising site - I think it's important to organize/inform about work WHERE PEOPLE WORK. Same as any other kind of #labororganizing... (1/
Bc it's the sex industry, every two weeks they post the article, tag me & Twitter ALWAYS deletes the notification. When I tag the company, that tweet gets flagged. It's literally informing ppl on laws affecting their #health & #safety but because it's sex work, it's blocked (2/
The conversation isn't just about what gets sent to the cops/police - companies like Twitter/FB have become important tools of organizing, we have relied on them just like other utilities, and many people have largely forgotten that they are private entities who are bound by (3/
