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UK Politicians Push For FOSTA SESTA-Style Sex Censorship (engadget.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: If you're familiar with the phrase "that's a terrible idea, let's do it" then you might be one of the British MPs who think that the UK should do its own version of FOSTA-SESTA. That's exactly what Labour MP Sarah Champion has done by leading a debate this week for the creation of laws to criminalize websites used by sex workers in the UK -- under the rubric of fighting trafficking, of course. A self-appointed group of MPs (the "All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade") fronted by Ms. Champion made a call to ban "prostitution websites" during a Wednesday House of Commons debate. Conflating sex work with trafficking just like their American counterparts, they claim websites where workers advertise and screen clients "directly and knowingly" profit from sex trafficking.

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  1. Re:Prostitution is legal in the UK. by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All of your comments are trolling flames based on that signal. The only reason you are not constantly downmodded is that your particular sort of trolling and flamebaiting is so much in tune with the modern day socialists that are so prevalent on this site.