The DC Circuit just upheld a controversial law aimed at protecting sex trafficking victims. Advocacy groups say it 'inadvertently encouraged the kind of abuse it sought to eradicate,' as more women are murdered and missing.
by forcing consensual sex workers to work the streets and breaking apart digital networks that workers used to keep each other safe.
"There was a lot of self-reporting where people said, 'I've gone back to do street-based work. I was doing online work in the past and this feels more dangerous' or 'I've experienced assault' since it happened," Cleary told Insider."And so that was the biggest impact, and then it's even kind of spread out into other ways."
The bill regulates"certain kinds of communications that service providers could now be held liable for that are related to trafficking, but also uses the word prostitution," Cleary told Insider."And so essentially, now, service providers could be held civilly or criminally liable in state or federal jurisdictions if they're found to have been hosting this kind of content — that would fall under these trafficking laws, federally.
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