tech politics, FOSTA/SESTA, (- -) 

I see a lot of calls to start new online spaces for sex workers to meet and discuss things because they’ve been kicked off of existing mainstream places

This seems dangerous. Purpose-made places cannot be a haven, they are obvious for the FBI to raid, anywhere in the world. Anything grassroots is going to be much too small to mount an effective legal defense.

I fear all that will happen is people self-sorting into easily-identified pods small enough to jail.

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tech politics, FOSTA/SESTA, (- -) 

Platform X that happened to gather people talking about sex work is legally different from platform Y that formed in response to the marginalization of sex workers consequent to a law explicitly trying to target those aiding and abetting sex work.

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