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<blockquote data-quote="Days of Broken Arrows" data-source="post: 1182911" data-attributes="member: 4258">Protect children?! LOL! This law won't protect anyone, except the maniacs who seek to harm hookers. If I were to create a law designed to empower serial killers and kidnappers, I could not do better than this one.Before: Hookers could screen clients, work out of a hotel or home, and generally have some control over who they see.Now: Women have to take to the street (or do other under-the-radar things) and won't know who the hell will pick them up -- or where they'll bring them. I saw some statistic that claimed the murder rate for sex workers fell after the introduction of online ads. Not only do I expect the murder rate to rise, but I bet we'll be seeing a lot more missing persons reports.All of which gets me thinking (again) that this is some kind of prelude to bigger, worse laws that will screw us all. I recently came across an article at Vice saying &quot;Social Media Bans Aren't Enough to Stop the Far Right&quot; (cache link <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3BM--2vDQboJ:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgqe7/do-social-media-bans-really-hurt-the-alt-right+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-b-1" target="_blank">here</a>).It boggles my mind the way idiots from both the right and left think bans will stop things like prostitution and &quot;wrongthink.&quot; It also troubles me that when people don't like what others are doing or thinking, their response is &quot;Let's ban it.&quot; What the eff happened to this country? What happened to live and let live?I personally don't like a lot of things, but banning them is never where my mind goes. Maybe bans could have seemed like a good idea years ago. But today people have instant, online access to more history and ideas than ever before. Can't they see that everything from Prohibition to the PMRC didn't work?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Days of Broken Arrows, post: 1182911, member: 4258"] Protect children?! LOL! This law won't protect anyone, except the maniacs who seek to harm hookers. If I were to create a law designed to empower serial killers and kidnappers, I could not do better than this one. Before: Hookers could screen clients, work out of a hotel or home, and generally have some control over who they see. Now: Women have to take to the street (or do other under-the-radar things) and won't know who the hell will pick them up -- or where they'll bring them. I saw some statistic that claimed the murder rate for sex workers fell after the introduction of online ads. Not only do I expect the murder rate to rise, but I bet we'll be seeing a lot more missing persons reports. All of which gets me thinking (again) that this is some kind of prelude to bigger, worse laws that will screw us all. I recently came across an article at Vice saying "Social Media Bans Aren't Enough to Stop the Far Right" (cache link [url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3BM--2vDQboJ:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgqe7/do-social-media-bans-really-hurt-the-alt-right+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1]here[/url]). It boggles my mind the way idiots from both the right and left think bans will stop things like prostitution and "wrongthink." It also troubles me that when people don't like what others are doing or thinking, their response is "Let's ban it." What the eff happened to this country? What happened to live and let live? I personally don't like a lot of things, but banning them is never where my mind goes. Maybe bans could have seemed like a good idea years ago. But today people have instant, online access to more history and ideas than ever before. Can't they see that everything from Prohibition to the PMRC didn't work? [/QUOTE]

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