6. Shutting Down the Online Marketplace

Sold In America

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A huge portion of the sex trade takes place online. Huge websites like Backpage and Craigslist used to offer a place where sex workers posted ads for their services. But these websites were also seen as a breeding ground for illegal trafficking. That’s why Congress passed legislation this year to hold websites accountable for posts related to prostitution. Politicians from both parties voted to pass a bill cracking down on online sex trade -- because how could you not want to help sex trafficking victims? The bill is called FOSTA/SESTA. But many sex workers see it differently. Noor heads to Capitol Hill for the first ever sex work lobby day and finds out that the people this law was meant to protect were never consulted before it passed -- and now say it's made their lives far more dangerous. You can hear ad-free episodes of Sold in America only on Stitcher Premium. For a free month of premium, go to stitcherpremium.com and use promo code 'AMERICA'.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, before we begin, please be advised that this podcast does contain adult themes,
0:06.8	and it is intended for a mature audience.
0:10.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:18.3	When you have your first child that changes your life, you become a different person.
0:23.3	Your whole world revolves around them.
0:27.8	My daughter, Desiree Robinson, was born March 29, 2000 at 252 p.m.
0:36.4	She was the light of my life.
0:38.2	My first born, my only daughter, my heart, my world, and Desiree made me a better person
0:46.5	because she was a beautiful person.
0:50.2	This is Yvonne Ambrose.
0:52.0	She has straight black hair to her shoulders and she's wearing a pink blazer.
0:56.1	She's sitting at a table and speaking in front of a panel of senators.
1:00.3	She's testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee back in
1:04.5	September 2017.
1:07.1	She looks small sitting at that big table in front of the microphone, but you can tell
1:11.1	she is doing everything she can to stay composed.
1:15.1	On December 23, 2016, a 32-year-old man by the name of Antonio Rosales was looking through
1:23.8	BackPage.com for a child to have a sex with.
1:28.2	Just like countless others before him, they knew that this is a website that they could
1:32.0	go to to engage in sex with minors.
1:38.5	He knew BackPage.com was a site to go to in order to find young, under-aged girls to have
1:43.4	sex with.
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