TownieDeac
words are futile devices
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FOSTA-SESTA was a tool put in the toolbox designed to smash backpage.com. Backpage.com was basically the opposite of pornhub; it had become a craigslist for sex with prostitutes. The market that it created was very real and difficult for law enforcement to regulate to mitigate some very bad outcomes.
The FOSTA-SESTA tool was a lot like other tools that the Government enacts - overbroad and drafted in a calculated way to make sure that the backpages of the world didn't sneak through a loophole.
But I think it's the way you have to do it; you need services like MCMEC. Developing a prostitution-side NCMEC would be the way to go. https://www.missingkids.org/HOME
My understanding was an externality of this law was that sex workers relied on Backpage for safety in the sex trade. It was a way of choosing clients and having a digital trace back to their identity. The volume of violent crime against sex workers declined with the advent of Backpage and then slowly climbed back up when it was taken down from FOSTA-SESTA. So for the good it did, it also made conditions less safe for sex workers. That was part of my question, what do you do about something like that? Seems to me like you're grappling with the underlying problem that man can be fundamentally evil, for which there's little we can do.