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The World's Oldest Profession . . .Legal Issues | John Oliver Last Week Tonight via Techdirt

The whole video is worth watching, and discusses how politicians, law enforcement, and sketchy “advocacy” groups repeatedly falsely try to conflate all sex work with sex trafficking

John Oliver Explains How FOSTA (And Lots Of Other Policies To ‘Help’ Sex Work) Has Backfired Badly

Legal Issues

from the john-oliver-the-resident-techdirt-tv-host dept

Wed, Mar 2nd 2022 10:40am - Mike Masnick

 

"For not the first time, John Oliver is taking on topics we often cover at Techdirt, and doing a fantastic job of it. His latest show went deep on just how screwed up laws and law enforcement about sex work are, including a specific look at FOSTA.

The whole video is worth watching, and discusses how politicians, law enforcement, and sketchy “advocacy” groups repeatedly falsely try to conflate all sex work with sex trafficking. But, more importantly, it discusses how nearly all of the laws written about sex work and sex trafficking are done without talking to actual sex workers, and because of that it creates laws, such as FOSTA, that actually do a lot more harm than good, and often focus on punishing sex workers while pretending to “help” them.

The part on FOSTA doesn’t go that deep, but does make the key point (as we and others have been making for years) that (1) after insisting that FOSTA was “needed” the government basically never used it, and (2) that it actually has made it much, much, much more difficult for law enforcement to track down and arrest actual sex traffickers. In a clip I hadn’t seen before, Oliver shows a law enforcement official noting that Backpage used to work with law enforcement, but after it was shut down, overseas sites rushed in to fill the void, and none of them are willing to work with law enforcement at all.

Indeed, the episode provides even more support to leaked DOJ documents that showed that Backpage was actually a very helpful partner to law enforcement in helping to track down actual sex trafficking, but balked at… extending that to consensual sex work. In other words, the very point that Oliver tried to raise in this episode.

And, of course, as we see all of this, Congress still refuses to recognize how much harm that FOSTA has done and is, instead, still focused on passing a new law, the EARN IT Act, that is in many ways even worse than FOSTA.

Filed Under: earn it, fosta, john oliver, law enforcement, section 230, sex trafficking, sex work, sex workers

PRIMARY ELECTION HERE IN MESA 02 AUGUST 2020: New Candidates for City Council Districts 4, 5 and 6

It is that time again - District 5 Councilmember David Luna and District 6 Councilmember Kevin Thompson are termed-out. They can't run again for a seat on the Mesa City Council - but Kevin Thompson may have plans to get elected to the Arizona Corporate Commission.

Jennifer Duff is the incumbent in District 4 after serving four years - her position is open for new challengers.

City of Mesa Primary Election Called

February 28, 2022 at 7:21 pm
Mesa City Council has called a Primary Election for Aug. 2, 2022 for nominating a Councilmember candidate in Districts 4, 5 and 6.

Their new terms expire in January 2027.

Key Primary Election Dates are as follows:

First day to request an early ballot - May 1, 2022

Voter registration cutoff - July 5, 2022

Early voting begins - July 6, 2022

Early voting in person ends - July 29, 2022

PRIMARY ELECTION DAY - Aug. 2, 2022

 

 

More info about primary election dates is available at mesanow.org

For more information, please contact the Mesa City Clerk's Office (480) 644-4868 or visit https://www.mesaaz.gov/government/city-clerk.

ORION INVESTMENT REAL ESTATE: Just Sold $8,922166 26.43 Acres Land in Mesa, AZ (in an Opportunity Zone)

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WATER QUALITY WEBINAR: Groundwater Well Operations and Maintenance | Earn PDHs | April 7, 2022

Groundwater Well Operations and Maintenance Presented by the Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), this free webinar will discuss the basic concepts of the hydrologic cycle and groundwater systems including aquifer types and general geological formations. The course will also cover: Basic well drilling methods and the anatomy of a completed well Types of pumps and motors Common groundwater quality issues Well operation and maintenance Record keeping essentials Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.  Register to Attend > Attendees will receive meeting access information via email upon registration View/Download Agenda> Professional development hours available. Questions? Contact Reshet Gebremariam at 602-771-4220 or Gebremariam.Reshet@azdeq.gov About ADEQ Under the Environmental Quality Act of 1986, the Arizona State Legislature established the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in 1987 as the state agency for protecting and enhancing public health and the environment of Arizona. For more information, visit azdeq.gov. ADEQ will take reasonable measures to provide access to department services to individuals with limited ability to speak, write or understand English and/or to those with disabilities. Requests for language translation, ASL interpretation, CART captioning services or disability accommodations must be made at least 48 hours in advance by contacting the Title VI Nondiscrimination Coordinator, Leonard Drago, at 602-771-2288 or Drago.Leonard@azdeq.gov. For a TTY or other device, Telecommunications Relay Services are available by calling 711. ADEQ tomará las medidas razonables para proveer acceso a los servicios del departamento a personas con capacidad limitada para hablar, escribir o entender inglés y/o para personas con discapacidades. Las solicitudes de servicios de traducción de idiomas, interpretación ASL (lengua de signos americano), subtitulado de CART, o adaptaciones por discapacidad deben realizarse con al menos 48 horas de anticipación comunicándose con el Coordinador de Anti-Discriminación del Título VI, Leonard Drago, al 602-771-2288 o Drago.Leonard@azdeq.gov. Para un TTY u otro dispositivo, los servicios de retransmisión de telecomunicaciones están disponible llamando al 711.

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REQUEST IS A BAD PLAN: Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers

Intro: MESSING with countries' supposedly sovereign country-code top-level domains... if that were to happen, a lot more countries than just China and Russia would secede from the common-consensus-Internet that allows us to all talk to each other

Ukraine's request to shut down the root name servers inside Russia "would make connectivity spotty for many users inside Russia, but mostly regular folks, not government or military users, . .the actions "would have little to no effect on the Russian government or military," pointing out that what Ukraine requests "is exactly the attack the Russians practiced for last July, which means their defenses are probably at optimum readiness right about now.

[.  ] it's a bad plan in the long term because it "would set the precedent that small industry associations in Los Angeles and Amsterdam would be playing arbiter in international conflicts, and messing with countries' supposedly sovereign country-code top-level domains. And if that were to happen, a lot more countries than just China and Russia would secede from the common-consensus-Internet that allows us to all talk to each other." 

 

 

Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers

Expert: Cutting DNS links would harm Russian people but have little impact on gov't.

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Jon Brodkin -

Ars Technica | 3/2/2022, 12:33 PM

"A Ukraine government official on Monday asked the nonprofit group that oversees the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) to shut down DNS root servers in Russia and revoke Russian domains such as .ru, .рф, and .su. The letter to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was posted here, and ICANN has confirmed that it received the letter.

. . .Sent days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, the letter said that Russia's "atrocious crimes have been made possible mainly due to the Russian propaganda machinery using websites continuously spreading disinformation, hate speech, promoting violence and hiding the truth regarding the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian IT infrastructure has undergone numerous attacks from the Russian side impeding citizens' and government's ability to communicate."

. . .The letter was sent by Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation, to ICANN CEO Göran Marby. "Apart from these measures, I will be sending a separate request to RIPE NCC asking to withdraw the right to use all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses by all Russian members of RIPE NCC (LIRs-Local Internet Registries), and to block the DNS root servers that it is operating," Fedorov wrote. RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) is the regional Internet registry.