Limited Free Speech: Filters and Shutdowns Pervasively Forecast

As of Tuesday FOSTA and SESTA passed the House and Senate, and Trump’s planning on signing FOSTA into law. I don’t know why more people haven’t been talking about the implications of this. Just now, as a broad example of everyday changes which will affect not a small portion of the country: the entire Craigslist Personals section is completely down because of their new liability for anything that happens as a result of people posting on their forum, something which will become more and more pervasive online: Check it out.

Want to talk about sex freely on the internet? Nope, too risky. What if talking about sex ends up in a situation where someone is trafficked?! The company which runs the platform it got talked about on is responsible for aiding traffickers.

Politicians are calling this “Sex Trafficking protection” but what they really want is an opportunity to prosecute Backpage so they can win talking points about how sex trafficking was done in during 2018 under Trump. It is ineffective rubbish at the price of free speech on the internet. Even the Department of Justice has weighed in saying these bills are unconstitutional, and trafficking survivors and sex trafficking advocates have spoken out against it as well. I wrote two articles a couple weeks ago about these votes and what they meant. Who knows, my own websites might even go down.

When will the people of our country look at the reality of sexual repression and start dealing with the issues it causes head on instead of swallowing more and more politically charged restrictions and lies?

I will tell you one thing: this bill is not stopping sex trafficking. It is, though, making sex work of all types — and even dating and domestic partnerships — less safe. When indoor prostitution is decriminalized sex workers of all varieties are able to work more safely, and domestic violence drops by around 30+% (as does the general population’s number of gonorrhea cases).

Human beings need to be and are going to be sexual. Period.

We should be defining sex work as work and figuring out how to help people who want to do it be safe, have resources easily and openly available for people who wish to exit that work so that they can leave the industry reasonably, and put in place meaningful sex trafficking measures for locating and dismantling those situations without further traumatizing the victims themselves.

This is utter bullshit. To be precise: it is sexist, homophobic, racist, transphobic utter bullshit. Let’s call a spade a spade here — sex workers by and large are not cis heterosexual white men… funny (not): Most politicians are.

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My response to this week (and the past year) as a citizen of the United States: We are all vulnerable to the corruption of those who would stand against a more equal nation which values and reflects our community’s true diversity. This idea is evidence-based, just look back over the past year’s shifting of policies nationwide which reflect protections of misguided entitlement over science-based agendas. As a transgender citizen of the United States, and as a citizen who happens to have a uterus, it looks as though by the end of our current presidency a fetus might have more rights over my body than I will.

Make no mistake, it is not a coincidence that women, queers, and racial minorities are the targets of an establishment which is patriarchal, older, male, cis, largely heteronormative, middle to upper class, and pervasively white, who would have their privileges upheld over people with reproductive abilities, alternative ideas about how and who to love or how to speak about their own identities and bodies, and those with skin colors who historically have been marginalized and abused. A community comprised of people who understand their individuated power to grow and over time better govern their bodies, hearts, and minds, a community which acts with respect to nature and understands the environment through science, evidence, and experience rather than dogmatic teachings is a community which will not much longer be repressed by the fossils of an abusive and repressive era. That some of the words I have used above (and I’m sure most of my ideas) are an abomination to our current governing body is remarkable.

Small minded.

Weak.

No, I’m not the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), but for the Federal Agency whose sole purpose is to keep the United States healthy to be limited by vocabulary (especially vocabulary accurately descriptive of its research) to receive funding, is not only ludicrous it is vile. I am a patriot, and I do not believe our current administration has the wellbeing of most of our nation’s people in its sight. I believe this administration to be actively hostile and hateful to the actual persons who comprise our nation.

Fuck. This. President.

Old man, shatter.

We “Other’d folk” growing healthy, strong, and demanding of our rights are the reality of natural growth and change.

Evangelicals: stay out of the Government. Your trifling is unconstitutional, and you cannot turn back nature’s progress meaningfully. Your attempts make you look a complete ass.

It is time for all of us who believe in the more perfect union achieved through equality and peace to not allow ourselves to be subdivided through the sting of “but me too” or “NotAll___” or fear of loss as the scales balance to favor all. We are on this Earth together, some more or differently blessed than others in circumstance and journey. It is up to each of us to utilize and to share what we possess to the benefit of all this planet’s creatures.

So be it.

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