Legislators are pushing back on behalf of sex workers who say they face more dangers since the FOSTA-SESTA laws took effect.
Dr. Francesca Sobande, a lecturer of digital media studies at Cardiff University who studies how sexism and inequality manifests in media and the marketplace, says that in addition to physical danger, online suppression can add to stigmas facing sex workers and impact their ability to find work.
"[FOSTA-SESTA] inhibits people's ability to use these platforms, and that can result in losses of income that exacerbate already precarious living situations," she continued. "Most offices had never confronted this issue before, so they were scared to oppose something under the umbrella term of anti-trafficking," Tyrone Hanley, senior policy counsel for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said."It's tough to confront decades' worth of outdated anti-trafficking efforts when people conflate sex work and trafficking."Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks with reporters at the Capitol, Dec. 18, 2019, in Washington, DC.
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