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Websites are shutting down users' speech because they fear prosecution and litigation as a result of Congress passing SESTA/FOSTA.
This is what Internet censorship looks like. This is an image with the text: Websites are shutting down users' speech because they fear prosecution and litigation as a result of Congress passing SESTA/FOSTA.<br /> This is what Internet censorship looks like.
Craigslist has now shut down its entire personals section.
craigslist.org/about/FOSTA This is a screenshot of text from Craigslist's website, explaining why they have closed their personals section. You can read the text at https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA
Reddit has removed several subreddits from their website.
reddit.com/r/announcement…
Pounced.org, a personal ads site, will remain offline while they "interpret the implications of the new FOSTA legislation passed by congress."
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Now that Tumblr is shutting down all "adult content", will people finally start paying attention to #SESTA/#FOSTA (and hold the people who created it accountable)?

How many more attacks on queer people and sex workers do we need before people acknowledge that it's a problem?
It's after the election! You're allowed to criticize Democrats now!

Where are all the people who were calling themselves allies and promising that, after the election, they'd work to pressure anti-SW Democrats into supporting sex workers? 🤔
I endured SO much outright abuse - yes, abuse - from (white) liberals and "allies" all year for talking about SESTA/FOSTA.

So yeah, I'm sure as fuck going to call their bluff on the "we'll do the work after the election" promise.
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I was going to write a thread about #WorldAIDSDay and the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but between the news of Bush's death today and the recent deaths of friends/family, I'm realizing I just... don't have the energy. I can barely even bear to think about it all.
Properly explicating the history of the epidemic would require a lot of background on the gay & queer communities, and a lot of connecting of dots which are obvious to queer people but not for straight people.
The thing that my mind keeps coming back to today: HAART became available in 1996. PrEP was approved in 2012.

That's only sixteen years.

I fucking LIVED through both changes, and I still can't believe that timeline when I think about it. #WorldAIDSDay
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Something that is fascinating me in this moment?

How many liberals/leftists insisted that alex Jones was the canary in the coal mine regarding censorship on social media

But a lot of y’all never said shit about #sesta #fosta and sex workers freedom of speech.

Interesting.
Idk how many more bad bills, arrests in the community, how much more police harassment, how much more violence we’re supposed to suffer in the name of free speech.

Nazis can march with police protection. Liberals defend alex Jones getting ppl doxxed, but SWs can’t sell handjobs
What a time to be alive.

News pundits can lie, violent white supremacists can get march permits. But sex workers can’t even pass around a digital bad date list.

Some of y’all have some backward ass priorities.

Jones wasn’t the canary in the coal mine; sex workers were.
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July is critical for the UK sex work landscape with dangerous #SESTA #FOSTA #Nordicmodel frameworks advocated. Everyone is shouting loudly, often without evidence. This is an evidence resource thread to be shared, based largely on the hard collation work of @alisonphipps
Our Lives Matter: Sex Workers Unite for health and rights
By Anna-Louise Crago, Open Society Institute Public Health Program opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/… Nordic: Sex workers can be displaced to outlying areas or more secluded times, for client protection, which creates additional risk
Abel et al. (2007) The impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the health and safety practices of sex workers: report to the Prostitution Law Review Committee. Health Research Council and Ministry of Justice, New Zealand. otago.ac.nz/christchurch/o…
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I've been researching the shutdown of sex workers accounts by Google for the last couple of days, and here's what appears to be happening.
Google is shutting down accounts that use Google drive to distribute porn. This means if you're using Google drive and setting up shares for customers to access your content, you need to stop.
Stick your content on a service designed to do what you need like @projectmaenad instead. Yeah, it's not free, but they won't shut down your account.
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Behind #SESTA is a nearly 20 year old coalition of lobby groups seeking to eradicate sex work. Meet them – and their grassroots opposition: injusticetoday.com/anti-online-tr…
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Against? Grassroots sex worker activists; plus @TransEquality and @NCLRights; also @genderhealth @iwhc @ACLU @EFF

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