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Elizabeth Nolan Brown Profile picture
@ENBrown
Aug 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The Violence Against Women Act led to massive new interventions in people's lives even when they didn't want it, to more abuse *victims* being arrested, & often to escalating abuse
reason.com/2020/08/20/kam…
As Judith Levine & Erica Meiners write in The Feminist & the Sex Offender, the Violence Against Women Act "married anti-violence feminists to the violent state." smile.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS…
Joe Biden's heart was probably in the right place w/the VAWA. But like so many "helpful" '90s crime laws, his policies ended up putting more people in danger and shuffled more Americans into the state's web of surveillance &control reason.com/2020/08/20/kam…
Dems choosing to crow about the Violence Against Women Act—not just last night at the #DNCConvention but throughout Biden's campaign—suggests neither Biden nor the rest of them have actually learned much about criminal justice since the 1990s reason.com/2020/08/20/kam…

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Aug 27
Sentencing today & tomorrow for Michael Lacey and other former execs at Backpage. Feds are recommending 20 years for Lacey. A brief thread on why that’s insane …
Lacey was convicted on just one count—a nonviolent financial crime with no victim. A 20-year sentence for that seems extreme under any circumstances

reason.com/2024/08/21/fed…
The offense on which he was found guilty is international concealment money laundering, for parking proceeds from the sale of Backpage in a foreign trust. But by no account did he conceal this $
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Jul 26
Only caught a few minutes of the ‘white ladies for Harris’ call before the Zoom cut out but it is basically everything you imagined it could be
There is privilege talk, obviously. And mentions of witches and collective power. And this being like a group therapy session, which is… telling
And it’s back! Image
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Jul 25
It's hard to overstate just how bad the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is

The Senate is likely to vote on it today, so let's take a look... Image
KOSA requires online businesses to "prevent or mitigate" minors from being exposed to anything that could cause basically any sort of "harm"

There are two ways to do this, and neither is good: Censor massive amounts of free speech, or age verify everyone reason.com/2024/07/24/sen…
KOSA would be cataclysmic for the internet when enforced in the most neutral of ways (think FOSTA but instead of just applying to sexuality, it's applied to just about everything).

But the real kicker is that it's going to be enforced *by political appointees* Image
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Mar 20, 2023
It seems like every literary or journalistic depiction of motherhood these days is dark af and somehow always elicits ample praise for being brave and truth-telling. It's... bizarre nytimes.com/2023/03/18/boo…
I'm all for society sugarcoating motherhood & parenthood less but... it feels like we've slipped into a weird pathology in certain circles where all people do is warn about how miserable it is & the only accounts accepted as truths are litanies of neverending hate & terror & pain
Related to this, people love to tell expecting or new parents that their lives are going to be miserable. @swin24 & I got sooooo much of this — often from internet strangers, but also friends & acquaintances — when I was pregnant.

Parenting needs better PR
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Mar 20, 2023
Here's a roundup of various state bills seeking to make changes — some good and some bad — to prostitution laws reason.com/2023/03/17/sta…
In 3 states — New York, Vermont, & Hawaii — lawmakers have introduced measures to decriminalize prostitution between consenting adults reason.com/2023/03/17/sta…
The Hawaii decrim bill (SB 1204) was introduced in January & comes from Sen. Carol Fukunaga, who's also proposed a bill to "study the effects of New Zealand's model of decriminalizing prostitution on sex workers, their clients, and the broader community" capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measur…
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Oct 31, 2022
Today's #ReasonRoundup highlights a few new findings on abortion.

First: The number of legal abortions in the US dropped significantly after SCOTUS overturned Roe. There were 6% fewer abortions in August 2022 than April—though more from virtual clinics reason.com/2022/10/31/nea…
Support for total bans on abortion is down! PRRI poll finds it dropped from 13% in 2020 to 8% this year, with steepest drop among Republicans
48% of voters in a new ABC-Ipsos poll prefer pro-choice candidates, while just 33% prefer candidates who support strict abortion restrictions (18% don't care)
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