"Agency is also a major issue in the ongoing debate within government and policymaking circles as well as among scholars about the legalization, decriminalization, and criminalization of sex work. Supporters of criminalization (of sex workers or clients) tend to undervalue the issue of agency and portray sex workers as victims. Supporters of decriminalization or legalization tend to stress the value of the choice of those involved"—Euchner & Knill (Citation2015). >

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2017.1330547

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"Content moderation, censorship, and shadowbanning facilitate sex worker erasure and normalize the digital and physical opression of sex working and AOP communities. Sex workers are disproportionately losing access to social media platforms, having bank accounts seized, being banned from major payment processers, and being used as test subjects for facial recognition databases. These are forms of structural violence that predominantly impact populations already vulnerable to state and platform policing’s access to resources, community, and harm reduction materials. This research shows how communities are negatively impacted by content moderation practices, and how surveillance technologies disrupt their ability to both earn an income and organize.

In solidarity,"—Hacking//Hustling

Posting Into The Void >

https://hackinghustling.org/posting-into-the-void-content-moderation/

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