𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯 :
The bill FOSTA/SESTA pushed s*x workers off of adult only spaces. Because of bills like FOSTA/SESTA, The Online Safety Act, and other censorship legislation, most s*x workers have to promote on social media to maintain any visibility and income. Without promoting on social media, s*x workers would be more economically marginalized than before. Content moderation, censorship, and shadowbanning facilitate s*x worker erasure and normalize the digital and physical opression of s*x working communities. S*x 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 policing access to resources. The majority of the digital technologies we rely on for daily communications are created by those already in power: wealthy, white, cishetero men. Many of the digital technologies that we use are created as part of a broader system of white supremacy and technocapitalism. These technologies reflect the biases of their creators, and can serve as extensions of the carceral state when they are used to deepen oppression and surveil communities. Content moderation, “algorithms of oppression”, and surveillance tech have been weaponized against communities of color in a wide range of ways, both implicitly and explicitly. For example, facial recognition technologies, which are becoming more widely used, lead to the disproportionate incarceration of Black people and communities of color. The increasing severity of content moderation online is a key component of the growing surveillance and silencing of communities already vulnerable to state and platform policing. The online technologies that are actively policing and criminalizing s*x work contribute to a broader system of state-corporate funded surveillance.
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