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Re:Jim Larkin, Backpage Exec, Dies by Suicide a Week Before ... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:50PM (#36980384)
> But they refused to do the same for consensual sex work and that is why the feds eventually came down on them like a ton of bricks, all while telling the media and politicians that it was for sex trafficking.

Sex trafficking is defined as sex work. There isn't a legal difference. That's why they're saying it.

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Re:Jim Larkin, Backpage Exec, Dies by Suicide a Week Before ... by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:31PM (#36992958)
> Sex trafficking is defined as sex work. There isn't a legal difference.

Sex trafficking is addressed in 18 U.S. Code §1591, where a sex trafficker is "a person who recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, obtains or maintains a minor for a commercial sex act"

This is pretty distinct from prostitution, a service which is legal in Nevada (where federal laws apply).

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Re:Jim Larkin, Backpage Exec, Dies by Suicide a Week Before ... by dragonwriter on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:37PM (#36993024)
> Sex trafficking is defined as sex work.

There are a number of definitions in different legal codes, but I’d be surprised if this was accurate in any of them (its not, as another reply notes, in US federal law): sex traffickers and sex workers aren't, even approximately, the same thing.

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