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Re:Proponents of sex trafficking bill urge Silicon Valley to... by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:27AM (#15294073)
> Sex trafficking != prostitution and involves forced sexual exploitation of unwilling or underage victims

There is a substantial political movement, that crosses the feminist left to the paternalistic right, that holds that all prostitution is in some manner coerced and is a subset of sex trafficking, and this group is part of the core if support for every anti-sex-trafficking law, and even moreso for laws like the proposed one that strip well-established protection and target people who aren't sex traffickers for some conduct several steps removed from trafficking.

While trafficking is a real problem that needs to be combatted, it's also the new banner under which the movement seeking ever more radical legislation to combat the existence of sex work is marching.

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