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I want to sign but i don't use Gab, New Project 2, BitChute and i don't want to mention the farms. are there normie services i can write in the comment box?
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Firearms companies? I don't think it's a good idea to lie about anything, though. If you can't think of anything, say you support the change in principle.
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Happy Birthday, Null. As someone who utilizes PayPal for "side work", I think it's about time they become regulated and stop unallowing people a purchase or transaction based on the content, merchandise, and seller, as well as their location. It's honestly ridiculous, considering eBay has plenty of technically contraband items, such as R4 Devices and other mass piracy programs and hardware, such as Everdrive, yet it's against the TOS to purchase, sell, create, etc. with eBay and PayPal accounts. Content and merchandise purchased shouldn't be moderated unless it's truly illegal, such as explicit material without consent (which extends to CP, mind you.)
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Defense Distributed got torn apart by the banks. Pornhub also if you're a coomer and wear it proud.
Normie services that get big get hemmed back into place by payment networks instead of deleted. If you've used Patreon and someone you gave money to was removed, 100% chance Stripe (financial service, and relies on payment network rules) told Patreon to ice them.
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Let's see. @Null according to this guy you just aren't looking hard enough. Why don't you take his advice and like, just use a payment processor, bro?
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Can someone make a template which explains why this is needed in a way a retard congress person will understand it? My congressmen would glance at the info Null provided and promptly ignore it for being too much to understand. One of them held a snowball up in the Senate as an argument against climate change, for crying out loud.
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Probably late in your timezone, but happy birthday Nool.
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Jersh is such a sweet boy. I hope his wish comes true.
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Let me make sure I understand this. If this rule passes as currently written, would it affect Paypal, Patreon, etc, or just BANK banks? Would I be able to give Null shekels in some manner without doxing myself to Coinbase?
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I'm not sure it would. As written, it only affects banks with over $100 billion in assets, while Paypal's total assets are only about $50 billion.
I strongly suggest that people writing messages bring this up. The people writing the regulation are focusing mainly on investment banks big enough to exert some degree of oligopoly power in the investment market.
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I've added my support. Not just for the Farms; no company should have the ability to censor other organizations.
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But at least the Slippery Slope is getting better 
Sex Workers Mobilise Against ‘Dangerous’ Bill Set to Criminalise Clients
by Sophie K Rosa
@sophiekrosa
11 December 2020
Estimated read time: 6 mins
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Parliament has passed a controversial bill proposing the UK adopts the ‘Nordic model’ for its laws on sex work. The bill, brought by Labour MP Diana Johnson on Wednesday, is opposed by sex workers and groups including Amnesty International, harm-reduction charity Release and Women Against Rape, who argue that the legal model it proposes is driven by ideology, not evidence and puts workers’ lives at risk.
Johnson’s bill – co-signed by Labour MPs including Stella Creasy, Sarah Champion and Rosie Duffield, and opposed by Labour MP Lyn Brown – would criminalise paying for sex and decriminalise selling sex, imposing what is known as the ‘Nordic’ or ‘end demand’ model. This legal model, currently in place in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, France, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Canada, has been met with resistance from sex workers since its inception in 1999.
In theory, the Nordic model criminalises clients and third parties in the sex trade, leaving workers unharmed, whilst supporting them to leave the industry. However, evidence from countries where it is enforced shows that it has created more dangerous working conditions, whilst still criminalising workers and not supporting exit for those who want to leave the industry.
Tamara Jade/Swarm
By criminalising paying for sex, Johnson’s bill would shrink sex workers’ client pool, leaving them with less freedom to turn down clients. “What other laws are [these remaining clients] willing to break?” asks Sarah, an organiser for sex workers’ rights campaign Decrim Now and a member of her local Labour party branch, referring to the increased rates of violence that workers living under the Nordic model experience.
“If you criminalise a client, they get to set the terms of how you sell sex,” she explains. A client who is risking arrest is more likely to insist a worker enters a car in a rush, or that they meet in an unsafe, unfamiliar place. Reduced demand means workers have to minimise their screening processes and accept clients they otherwise wouldn’t, as well as lower their prices.
A report by Medicins du Monde found that since the introduction of the ‘end demand’ model in France, “violence, of all kinds have increased: insults in the street, physical violence, sexual violence, theft, and armed robbery in the workplace.”
The report also found that the laws “had a detrimental effect on sex workers’ safety, health and overall living conditions,” and “increased impoverishment, especially among people already living precariously, namely undocumented migrant women working in the street.”
“The people who are most affected by the Nordic model are the people with fewest choices,” says Sarah. “They’re having their income source taken away and they don’t have any way to replace it, so they are going to take more risks because they are working in such precarious conditions, which is what we see for precarious workers all over the world.”
The bill would also criminalise what Johnson calls “pimping sites,” which are in fact websites mostly used by sex workers themselves to independently find and screen clients without relying on exploitative third-parties and managers. “Online advertising has been proven to give sex workers more power,” says Sarah, adding that this part of the bill would also prevent sex workers from collectively organising to create their own online platforms.
Niki Adams from the English Collective of Prostitutes believes Johnson’s bill represents a harmful anti-sex work ideology – more concerned with eradicating the industry on moral grounds than improving women’s material conditions – which has “traditionally been led by an unholy alliance of feminist politicians and fundamentalist Christians.” In Northern Ireland, Adam explains, “it was the reactionary, homophobic, anti-abortion Lord Morrow, who, backed by feminist campaigners, put forward the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill,” which criminalised clients.
Tamara Jade/Swarm
Indeed, Johnson’s speech in parliament to propose the bill, repeatedly referred to “trafficking” and “exploitation”, failing to draw any distinctions between forced labour, trafficked labour and consensual sex work, and without considering how women’s material conditions mean they may choose to cross borders or to do sex work.
“The justification for this bill is that trafficking is rife and can be reduced if sex workers’ clients are criminalized. This is untrue,” says Adams. In fact, she says, “trafficking is enabled by poverty and women’s need and determination to escape it,” as well as “the hostile immigration environment that makes it impossible for most migrants to cross international borders unaided.” Anti-trafficking laws already exist in the UK, and in practice, they “have been used as a justification for police crackdowns which have targeted migrant sex workers for arrest and deportation and have distorted the public perception of how much prostitution is directly the result of trafficking,” says Adams.
The proposed bill also fails to address the most pressing reasons why women do sex work: to earn enough money to survive and care for their children. Adams says that Nordic model proponent ‘feminists’ “target prostitution as uniquely degrading, seemingly oblivious to the degradation and humiliation women face having to skip meals, beg, or submit to a violent partner to keep a roof over their heads.”
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen more women enter sex work, whilst the client base as shrunk – workers report that poverty and violence at work have both risen.
London-based sex worker Anna* says that she and other sex workers have been faced with more dangerous clients this year. National Ugly Mugs, an anti-violence organisation where sex workers can report incidents, sends text alerts to workers, and Anna says that in the past 24 hours alone she has received messages about “workers being robbed at gunpoint” and raped. “It’s already dangerous,” she says, “and I’m scared about how much worse things will get if this bill is brought into law.”
Anna is also concerned about the impact of the economic fallout from Brexit on sex workers. Because of a lack of other job options and insufficient state support, more women are likely to enter sex work. In this context, the bill feels like “suffocation” and seems to be saying to workers that “we don’t care about your safety,” Anna says.
Johnson quoted clients’ negative online reviews of sex workers in her speech and referred to “women being raped and abused for profit,” seemingly to invoke outrage against the sex industry on moral, ‘feminist’ grounds. Sarah believes such rhetoric erases sex workers lived experiences and positions them as “disposable collateral damage in some war to punish ‘bad men’.”
“No sex worker I know has that much sympathy for clients,” she says, “but those supporting Johnson’s bill shouldn’t be letting their anger at clients override the need for sex workers to work in safety; criminalisation of women’s incomes and workplaces will not stop men from writing abusive things about women on the internet.”
Anna, who is a United Sex Workers trade union member, wants politicians to heed workers’ demands. “It just makes me angry that people who have no idea what it’s like to do sex work are making decisions that will endanger me and people I love.” She says politicians should “listen to workers” who “know what we need to feel safe”, along with the views of rights and health organisations like Amnesty International, the World Health Organisation, Human Rights Watch, all of which support decriminalisation of the entire sex industry.
Sex worker activists and allies are calling for people to email their MPs and tell them to oppose the bill, which will have its second reading on 29 January 2021. “Labour members and MPs who claim to be concerned about abuse and violence against women, should back sex worker-led struggles for labour rights,” says Adams, instead of supporting a bill that “will increase violence against sex workers and increase the powers of the police against a criminalised sector of women.”
As sex workers mobilise to fight this bill, Sarah believes that “solidarity across different groups who are also penalised by the state,” is crucial. “It’s really important we don’t ‘other’ sex workers,” she says. “Sex workers’ struggles are migrant struggles; are women’s struggles; are mothers’ struggles; are disabled peoples struggles.”
“Pro-criminalisation ‘feminists’ within the establishment do not represent us,” adds Adams. “Their choice to side with the state and increase police powers against us, whilst standing by as we are made poorer and more vulnerable to violence, is no real feminism at all.”
*Identifying details have been changed to protect anonymity.
Graphics by Tamara Jade.
Sophie K Rosa is a freelance journalist. In addition to Novara Media, she writes for the Guardian, VICE, Open Democracy, CNN, Al Jazeera and Buzzfeed.
Published 11 December 2020
by Sophie K Rosa
@sophiekrosa
11 December 2020
Estimated read time: 6 mins
Tweet Article Facebook Share Send to Kindle
Parliament has passed a controversial bill proposing the UK adopts the ‘Nordic model’ for its laws on sex work. The bill, brought by Labour MP Diana Johnson on Wednesday, is opposed by sex workers and groups including Amnesty International, harm-reduction charity Release and Women Against Rape, who argue that the legal model it proposes is driven by ideology, not evidence and puts workers’ lives at risk.
Johnson’s bill – co-signed by Labour MPs including Stella Creasy, Sarah Champion and Rosie Duffield, and opposed by Labour MP Lyn Brown – would criminalise paying for sex and decriminalise selling sex, imposing what is known as the ‘Nordic’ or ‘end demand’ model. This legal model, currently in place in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, France, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Canada, has been met with resistance from sex workers since its inception in 1999.
In theory, the Nordic model criminalises clients and third parties in the sex trade, leaving workers unharmed, whilst supporting them to leave the industry. However, evidence from countries where it is enforced shows that it has created more dangerous working conditions, whilst still criminalising workers and not supporting exit for those who want to leave the industry.
Tamara Jade/Swarm
By criminalising paying for sex, Johnson’s bill would shrink sex workers’ client pool, leaving them with less freedom to turn down clients. “What other laws are [these remaining clients] willing to break?” asks Sarah, an organiser for sex workers’ rights campaign Decrim Now and a member of her local Labour party branch, referring to the increased rates of violence that workers living under the Nordic model experience.
“If you criminalise a client, they get to set the terms of how you sell sex,” she explains. A client who is risking arrest is more likely to insist a worker enters a car in a rush, or that they meet in an unsafe, unfamiliar place. Reduced demand means workers have to minimise their screening processes and accept clients they otherwise wouldn’t, as well as lower their prices.
A report by Medicins du Monde found that since the introduction of the ‘end demand’ model in France, “violence, of all kinds have increased: insults in the street, physical violence, sexual violence, theft, and armed robbery in the workplace.”
The report also found that the laws “had a detrimental effect on sex workers’ safety, health and overall living conditions,” and “increased impoverishment, especially among people already living precariously, namely undocumented migrant women working in the street.”
“The people who are most affected by the Nordic model are the people with fewest choices,” says Sarah. “They’re having their income source taken away and they don’t have any way to replace it, so they are going to take more risks because they are working in such precarious conditions, which is what we see for precarious workers all over the world.”
The bill would also criminalise what Johnson calls “pimping sites,” which are in fact websites mostly used by sex workers themselves to independently find and screen clients without relying on exploitative third-parties and managers. “Online advertising has been proven to give sex workers more power,” says Sarah, adding that this part of the bill would also prevent sex workers from collectively organising to create their own online platforms.
Niki Adams from the English Collective of Prostitutes believes Johnson’s bill represents a harmful anti-sex work ideology – more concerned with eradicating the industry on moral grounds than improving women’s material conditions – which has “traditionally been led by an unholy alliance of feminist politicians and fundamentalist Christians.” In Northern Ireland, Adam explains, “it was the reactionary, homophobic, anti-abortion Lord Morrow, who, backed by feminist campaigners, put forward the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill,” which criminalised clients.
Tamara Jade/Swarm
Indeed, Johnson’s speech in parliament to propose the bill, repeatedly referred to “trafficking” and “exploitation”, failing to draw any distinctions between forced labour, trafficked labour and consensual sex work, and without considering how women’s material conditions mean they may choose to cross borders or to do sex work.
“The justification for this bill is that trafficking is rife and can be reduced if sex workers’ clients are criminalized. This is untrue,” says Adams. In fact, she says, “trafficking is enabled by poverty and women’s need and determination to escape it,” as well as “the hostile immigration environment that makes it impossible for most migrants to cross international borders unaided.” Anti-trafficking laws already exist in the UK, and in practice, they “have been used as a justification for police crackdowns which have targeted migrant sex workers for arrest and deportation and have distorted the public perception of how much prostitution is directly the result of trafficking,” says Adams.
The proposed bill also fails to address the most pressing reasons why women do sex work: to earn enough money to survive and care for their children. Adams says that Nordic model proponent ‘feminists’ “target prostitution as uniquely degrading, seemingly oblivious to the degradation and humiliation women face having to skip meals, beg, or submit to a violent partner to keep a roof over their heads.”
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen more women enter sex work, whilst the client base as shrunk – workers report that poverty and violence at work have both risen.
London-based sex worker Anna* says that she and other sex workers have been faced with more dangerous clients this year. National Ugly Mugs, an anti-violence organisation where sex workers can report incidents, sends text alerts to workers, and Anna says that in the past 24 hours alone she has received messages about “workers being robbed at gunpoint” and raped. “It’s already dangerous,” she says, “and I’m scared about how much worse things will get if this bill is brought into law.”
Anna is also concerned about the impact of the economic fallout from Brexit on sex workers. Because of a lack of other job options and insufficient state support, more women are likely to enter sex work. In this context, the bill feels like “suffocation” and seems to be saying to workers that “we don’t care about your safety,” Anna says.
Johnson quoted clients’ negative online reviews of sex workers in her speech and referred to “women being raped and abused for profit,” seemingly to invoke outrage against the sex industry on moral, ‘feminist’ grounds. Sarah believes such rhetoric erases sex workers lived experiences and positions them as “disposable collateral damage in some war to punish ‘bad men’.”
“No sex worker I know has that much sympathy for clients,” she says, “but those supporting Johnson’s bill shouldn’t be letting their anger at clients override the need for sex workers to work in safety; criminalisation of women’s incomes and workplaces will not stop men from writing abusive things about women on the internet.”
Anna, who is a United Sex Workers trade union member, wants politicians to heed workers’ demands. “It just makes me angry that people who have no idea what it’s like to do sex work are making decisions that will endanger me and people I love.” She says politicians should “listen to workers” who “know what we need to feel safe”, along with the views of rights and health organisations like Amnesty International, the World Health Organisation, Human Rights Watch, all of which support decriminalisation of the entire sex industry.
Sex worker activists and allies are calling for people to email their MPs and tell them to oppose the bill, which will have its second reading on 29 January 2021. “Labour members and MPs who claim to be concerned about abuse and violence against women, should back sex worker-led struggles for labour rights,” says Adams, instead of supporting a bill that “will increase violence against sex workers and increase the powers of the police against a criminalised sector of women.”
As sex workers mobilise to fight this bill, Sarah believes that “solidarity across different groups who are also penalised by the state,” is crucial. “It’s really important we don’t ‘other’ sex workers,” she says. “Sex workers’ struggles are migrant struggles; are women’s struggles; are mothers’ struggles; are disabled peoples struggles.”
“Pro-criminalisation ‘feminists’ within the establishment do not represent us,” adds Adams. “Their choice to side with the state and increase police powers against us, whilst standing by as we are made poorer and more vulnerable to violence, is no real feminism at all.”
*Identifying details have been changed to protect anonymity.
Graphics by Tamara Jade.
Sophie K Rosa is a freelance journalist. In addition to Novara Media, she writes for the Guardian, VICE, Open Democracy, CNN, Al Jazeera and Buzzfeed.
Published 11 December 2020
Two Senators Launch Joint Bill Proposing Massive Adult Site Regs
December 18, 2020 4:00 PM CST Legal - By Peter WarrenPeter Warren
Two Senators Launch Joint Bill Proposing Massive Adult Site Regs
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators Ben Sasse (R-NE) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced a bipartisan bill Friday calling for extensive new regulations on adult websites.
Dubbed the "Stop Internet Sexual Explotation Act," the bill was prompted, according to an announcement from Sasse's office, by "disturbing reports of how videos and photos are uploaded to websites like Pornhub without the consent of individuals who appear in them—haunting and traumatizing victims."
Without detailing the "reports" it references, the announcement would by all appearances be in response to the charges filed Tuesday against Pornhub parent company MindGeek alleging that the company knowingly hosted and profited from the nonconsensual videos over which website GirlsDoPorn was prosecuted last January (and to which performer/producer Ruben Andre Garcia pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to produce in a separate, ongoing federal case).
Among the regulations the new bill seeks to enact are:
• Requiring platforms hosting pornography to, within two weeks of enactment:
- Require any user uploading a video to the platform to verify their identiry
- Require any user uploading a video to the platform also upload a signed consent form from every individual appearing in the video
• Creating a private right of action against an uploader who uploads a pornographic image without the consent of an individual featured in the image
• Requiring platforms hosting pornography to include a notice or banner on the website instructing how an individual can request removal of a video if an individual has not consented to it being uploaded on the platform
• Prohibiting video downloads from these platforms, to be in place within three months of enactment of the legislation
• Requiring platforms hosting pornography to offer a 24-hour hotline staffed by the platform, for individuals who contact the hotline to request removal of a video that has been distributed without their consent
- Requiring removal of flagged videos within two hours of such a request
• Requiring platforms to use software to block a video from being re-uploaded after its removal, which must be in place within six months of enactment of the legislations
• Directing the Federal Trade Commission to enforce violations of these requirements
• Creating a database of individuals who have indicated they do not consent, which must be checked before new content can be uploaded to platforms
- Instructing the Department of Justice to promulgate rules on where this database should be housed, and determine how to connect victims with services, to include couseling and casework
- Establishing that failure to comply with this requirement will result in a civil penalty to the platform, with proceeds going towards victim services
Commented Sasse in the announcement of the bill, "Human dignity matters. A decent society has an obligation to fight sexual exploitation and human trafficking. ... Our bill is aimed squarely at the monsters who profit from rape. Washington outght to be able to come together to combat human trafficking and make this right."
Added Merkley, "The posting of intimate photos and videos without participants' consent is a massive invasion of privacy that drives shame, humiliation, and potentially suicide. While some online platforms have recently announced steps to change some practices, much more needs to be done. We must ensure that not another single life of a child, man, or woman is destroyed by these sites."
The full text of the bill is available here.
December 18, 2020 4:00 PM CST Legal - By Peter WarrenPeter Warren
Two Senators Launch Joint Bill Proposing Massive Adult Site Regs
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators Ben Sasse (R-NE) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced a bipartisan bill Friday calling for extensive new regulations on adult websites.
Dubbed the "Stop Internet Sexual Explotation Act," the bill was prompted, according to an announcement from Sasse's office, by "disturbing reports of how videos and photos are uploaded to websites like Pornhub without the consent of individuals who appear in them—haunting and traumatizing victims."
Without detailing the "reports" it references, the announcement would by all appearances be in response to the charges filed Tuesday against Pornhub parent company MindGeek alleging that the company knowingly hosted and profited from the nonconsensual videos over which website GirlsDoPorn was prosecuted last January (and to which performer/producer Ruben Andre Garcia pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to produce in a separate, ongoing federal case).
Among the regulations the new bill seeks to enact are:
• Requiring platforms hosting pornography to, within two weeks of enactment:
- Require any user uploading a video to the platform to verify their identiry
- Require any user uploading a video to the platform also upload a signed consent form from every individual appearing in the video
• Creating a private right of action against an uploader who uploads a pornographic image without the consent of an individual featured in the image
• Requiring platforms hosting pornography to include a notice or banner on the website instructing how an individual can request removal of a video if an individual has not consented to it being uploaded on the platform
• Prohibiting video downloads from these platforms, to be in place within three months of enactment of the legislation
• Requiring platforms hosting pornography to offer a 24-hour hotline staffed by the platform, for individuals who contact the hotline to request removal of a video that has been distributed without their consent
- Requiring removal of flagged videos within two hours of such a request
• Requiring platforms to use software to block a video from being re-uploaded after its removal, which must be in place within six months of enactment of the legislations
• Directing the Federal Trade Commission to enforce violations of these requirements
• Creating a database of individuals who have indicated they do not consent, which must be checked before new content can be uploaded to platforms
- Instructing the Department of Justice to promulgate rules on where this database should be housed, and determine how to connect victims with services, to include couseling and casework
- Establishing that failure to comply with this requirement will result in a civil penalty to the platform, with proceeds going towards victim services
Commented Sasse in the announcement of the bill, "Human dignity matters. A decent society has an obligation to fight sexual exploitation and human trafficking. ... Our bill is aimed squarely at the monsters who profit from rape. Washington outght to be able to come together to combat human trafficking and make this right."
Added Merkley, "The posting of intimate photos and videos without participants' consent is a massive invasion of privacy that drives shame, humiliation, and potentially suicide. While some online platforms have recently announced steps to change some practices, much more needs to be done. We must ensure that not another single life of a child, man, or woman is destroyed by these sites."
The full text of the bill is available here.
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Cryptocurrency. Tobacco. Oil. Wikileaks. Marijuana. Those are some of the big ones. Most of the impact is indirect, or this would likely be discussed in public more often.
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I really hope this goes through, but if you look at a lot of the comments being posted on the proposal there is a ton of them that sound suspiciously similar all saying that they do not support the bill because "it will put more guns on the streets" and then a ton more somehow saying this is all part of Drumpf's dasdardly plan and allowing this proposal to become law would be, like, literally murder.
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if you want to regulate the banks then get rid of that fucking patriot act.
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Have the bestest b-day, papa jersh
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Happy late Birthday Null, Unfortunately I am a Britfag and cannot fight against the system, but the non credit union Banks can seriously suck a dick, ALL of the dicks.
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Happy Birthday, Null. I have submitted my comments as well, I hope you get your birthday wish