Sesta/Fosta Does Not Seem To Be Working
Dec. 4th, 2018 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osewalrusIt's always worthwhile to go back and see if laws passed actually address the problem they were supposed to solve. SESTA/FOSTA was passed last year to do away with advertising for sex services and thus reduce sex trafficking. So did it work?
Not according to any actual verifiable metric. As critics of the law warned, stoping advertising of sex services turns out to be very hard to do. And whereas the services like Backpage and Craig's List generally cooperated with authorities, and provided a safe way for sex workers who were not being trafficked to advertise services and screen customers in advance, the new advertising services for sex services do not cooperate with police and are not particularly friendly to women who are the actual sex workers.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181130/17313941144/utter-failure-fosta-more-lives-risk-sex-ads-have-increased-not-decreased.shtml
A year is not a lot of time, but it given the statements of Sesta/Fosta proponents, and the labelling of critics as supporting sex trafficking, the failure of the law is certainly worth noting.
Not according to any actual verifiable metric. As critics of the law warned, stoping advertising of sex services turns out to be very hard to do. And whereas the services like Backpage and Craig's List generally cooperated with authorities, and provided a safe way for sex workers who were not being trafficked to advertise services and screen customers in advance, the new advertising services for sex services do not cooperate with police and are not particularly friendly to women who are the actual sex workers.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181130/17313941144/utter-failure-fosta-more-lives-risk-sex-ads-have-increased-not-decreased.shtml
A year is not a lot of time, but it given the statements of Sesta/Fosta proponents, and the labelling of critics as supporting sex trafficking, the failure of the law is certainly worth noting.
