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Re:The Internet Is for Porn by dragonwriter on Sunday December 20, 2020 @02:42PM (#25488941)
> The author's bias about how the women, _who are actually getting monetarily compensated_, are the victims

Being monetarily compensated doesn't prevent being a victim, which is the basis of all labor protection legislation beyond “workers must get paid at least a token amount”.

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Re:The Internet Is for Porn by mbrodersen on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:25AM (#25493918)
If I understand it correctly, the sex workers are adults who has signed contracts to do a specific job for a specific amount of $ The same as a factory worker who might end up loosing their health or lives doing their job. What is the difference exactly?
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Re:The Internet Is for Porn by dragonwriter on Monday December 21, 2020 @10:20AM (#25495689)
> What is the difference exactly?

The difference is that when widespread systemic labor abuses are revealed in a manufacturing industry, people who aren't members of the capitalist class or spokespeople for the firms in the industry have no problem recognizing that the factory workers are victims.

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