Sup you beautiful bastards hope you're having a
Fantastic Thursday welcome back to the Philip Defranco show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we need to talk about today
Is FOSTA/SESTA. If you haven't heard about this
It was a controversial mashup bill.
FOSTA stands for fight sex trafficking online act
SESTA stands for stop enabling sex traffickers act
Congress passed it in March it got to the president the president signed it into law it turns out
There's actually an incredibly troubling situation because even though on the surface. It seems like it makes sense sex traffickers are bad
We should shut down sex traffickers makes sense
Yes
so you have
Organizations like the ACLU the EFF millions of sex workers saying that
this is not what we need
it's a terrible harmful, deeply flawed law. But the core of the problem
Is that the law conflates both sex work with sex trafficking
and also before moving forward just for transparency sake I'll let you know where I stand on the issue
sex trafficking of course is
Horrible it needs to be crackdown on it needs to be just crushed
But as far as prostitution itself
I personally think that it should be legalized it should be taxed
It should be treated like a job and safety measures put into place
both to prevent situations like sex trafficking abuse
safety reasons. And I mean that whether it be violence or
STD related.
And my opinion what people choose to do with their bodies is their own business
as long as they're not harming anyone else
I mean just like an oversimplified version as why is why is porn okay?
Because there is a camera and it's meant for
entertainment the two or however many consenting adults
can't do the same thing if it's not filmed and
repurposed for entertainment as
put a system in place where he can crack down on the bad actors and keep everyone else safe
I just want to throw that out there
But back to the story
and the past month you may have actually heard of this story one of the main focal points of this
Has been a website called back page
It's actually important for us to talk about what happened with back page calm
because it leads us to the current environment those don't know
Backpage was a classified ad website that launched in
2004. And it became even more popular after Craigslist stopped hosting adult services ads in 2010 because their site still allowed those ads and officials
Of backpage.com had long been accused of using the site to facilitate
Prostitution and child sex trafficking there'd been charges in the past those ended up getting dismissed then in 2017 a two-year Senate
Investigation into online sex trafficking found that backpage.com had quote knowingly
Concealed evidence of criminality by editing its adult ads they reportedly scrubbed terms or images from ads that indicated illegal
transactions things like lolita,
teenage rape, young. After that, investigation was published back page shut down its adult ad section the company had also been hit with several lawsuits
by the victims their families over the past few years in relation to the sex trade ads. But,
for the most part throughout all of
this, Backpage have been largely protected by section 2 3-0 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act
Giving a broad layer of immunity to online companies from being held liable for user-generated content
But on April 6 of this year back page servers were seized and shut down a raid by the Department of Justice
FBI and other federal agencies on April 9th a federal judge in Arizona unsealed a
93 count indictment against Backpage creators Michael Lacey and James Larkin as well as five others at the company and a detailed stories of victims
Who had been trafficked on Backpage some as young as 14 when he was forced perform sex acts at gunpoint was choked until she had
Seizures and gang rape. Another was stabbed to death by a customer who then tried to burn her corpse
However the Justice Department said that the case against Backpage does not rely on sex trafficking charges
But instead on charges connected to facilitating prostitution and money laundering
But, the outrage around Backpage
Evading previous lawsuits pushed lawmakers to make changes to legislation that has shielded Backpage for years that brings us back to
FOSTA-SESTA. The FOSTA-SESTA package enables victims and state prosecutors to pursue
websites for facilitating sex trafficking or prostitution in criminal and civil court without being blocked by section
2-3-0 many believing that this bill was necessary since section 2-3-0 is never intended to provide legal
protection to websites to promote the sale of sex. But there are others upset with the passage of this bill internet firms and free speech advocates
Arguing that would lead to censorship
It would stifle innovation the Electronic Frontier Foundation calling it the most
significant rollback to date of the protections for online speech and section
2-3-0 opponents of the bill arguing that it also wasn't necessary in the first place because the federal government already has the ability to prosecute
Facilitators of sex trafficking and in fact Backpage itself serves as an example of that from signed this into law on April 11th
But the federal government took action against Backpage executives before that bill became a law which led some to question
Why FOSTA-SESTA was even needed if such action could be taken without it and on top of the free speech issue the law has
Been widely rejected by sex workers rights advocates and other experts saying if the sex workers are being put into immediate harm
And this is because sex workers have said online
Platforms give them a safe space a safe alternative to just finding clients on the street and as far as how it's safer there was
A Chicago sex worker who was interviewed by the Guardian who explained sites like back page gave her the ability to negotiate terms in advance
requests a client's provide references run cross checks on clients email
Addresses she can communicate with other sex workers about dangerous or violent people to avoid and on top of all of that there are people
arguing
that the law doesn't even fight sex trafficking networking bergman executive director of freedom network USA a coalition of anti trafficking
advocates said shutting down every service provider and website will not end sex trafficking what it will do is push traffickers to
Overseas websites that are beyond the reach of law enforcement
Making it harder to prosecute them and harder to find them through the victims know some people like ginger banks has become an outspoken voice
On this issue what any other full-service sex workers are already at a higher risk of being murdered due to their job and taking away
Their resources to scream through violent clients is just going to make that worse now just under a month after this bill was signed into
Law, we're already seeing negative stories coming out Laura Moon
Who is a sex trafficking survivor and writer say him seem to be coming out of the woodwork since this all happened
They're taking advantage of the situation sex workers are in this is why I say FOSTA-SESTA have actually increased traffic
I've had pimps contacting me. They're leech they make money off of sex workers misfortune
also, the sex work blog tits and sass saying if there have been reports of 13 sex workers having gone missing who have been confirmed dad
Countless others have been reportedly assaulted and raped and they say this is a result of being pushed offline and back into the streets to
Find work. And in general, it appears that all this law is really done is push
What is going to continue to happen back into the darkness?
And we have massive numbers shrouded in darkness
Horrible stuff is going to happen to them. More obviously does need to be done to protect vulnerable people
But you don't really accomplish that by making more people vulnerable
But all of that said like I always try to do on the philip defranco show that's the story also my opinion
And I'd love to hear from you. Whether you agree or disagree in those comments down below
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Anything at all links as always are in the description down below and very quickly. I'll mention Camille Cosby
She is the wife of Bill Cosby she called the case and verdict against her husband mob
Justice my personal response to this is well one. I mean it's not the most shocking statement
I mean she has stuck by him till now
but also to
Know it's not it's not mob
Justice unless the the mob that you were referring to is the around 60 women he is accused of sexually
Assaulting and drugging so yeah
I guess you could call it mob justice when you have a person who allegedly sexually
Assaulted and drugged enough women to make up a mob and in my eyes the only thing that is unfortunate about this quote-unquote
Justice is that based off of time restrictions?
He is only really being held accountable
For one case and it's so many years after also the fact that in her statement
She compared what Bill Cosby is going through right now to that of situations with Emmett Till and Darryl hunt is
Disgusting to me those stories if you don't know hunt was wrongly convicted
Of murdering and raping a white woman in the 80s until was a black 14 year old that was lynched in Mississippi after he allegedly
Flirted with a white woman and on top of how just a horrible that situation is by itself years and years after the woman came
Out and said you know he'd never actually even flirted with me to compare those horrible disgusting stains on American history
To that of your husband who is accused by sixty women not just a single accuser
Not just white very similar stories and is overwhelmingly
Pathetic, but unfortunately not surprised and that is all the breath you're worthy of today, then we had model Gigi Hadid in the news
She's recently come under fire for the cover image on May 2018 Vogue Italian people saying it looks excessively
Photoshopped that she looks like a completely different person, and so I'm saying it just looks like straight up blackface
I'll let you compare and contrast her so but it should also be noted
This is not a new kind of situation or a scandal for the person that photographed this a photographer being Steven Klein
He also came under fire for a similar situation with Kim Kardashian last year
He was saying at that time that it looked like he had darkened Kim Kardashian
Also GiGi released a statement on her instance story today saying this is a photo of me returning home from shooting my Italia
Vogue cover on April 3rd you can see the level I had been bronze 2 on set that day
Please understand that my control of a shoot 1 is
non-existent in terms of creative direction who ends completely when I leave set and anything done to a photo and post is out of my
Control, fully bronzing and Photoshop is a style that s Klein has done for many years
And I believe was what was expected from the shoot to show me in a different way
Creatively then going on add, please know that things would have been different if my control of the situation was different regardless
I want to apologize because my intention is never to diminish those concerns or take opportunities away from anyone else
I hope this can be an example to other magazines and teams in the future and closing there are real issues regarding
representation in fashion
It's our responsibility to acknowledge those issues and communicate through them to work towards a more diverse industry
And that's kind of a little all over the place respond. It's a photographer style it was to be expected
I would have personally done something different
There's also an apology and then call to action and so I'll pass question off to you is the situation a big deal
Yes, no. Do you think people are making a mountain out of a molehill?
Let me know then if you are someone that lives in Indianapolis at around 9 o'clock in the morning yesterday
Go westbound on i-70 near Holt Road the police would like to ask you to return the up to around six hundred
Thousand dollars of that just got blown out onto the highway when the back security door of a Brinks security truck
Just opened the Brinks truck driver said that another person I was driving, aka
nark went to the back of the truck to let him know that the door was just open and so then he stopped addressed the
Situation as of right now
We don't know if it was human error a mechanical failure to kind of paint the scene for you
And it's it's not shocking jumper said there were people just jumping over fences from adjacent neighborhoods grabbing the money
They had pockets full of money and police are saying if you have the money
Please turn it is specifically saying if you're willing to in good conscience turn it back in there's amnesty
There's no real questions asked if you're willing to give it back and it appears that it's something police are hoping people take seriously since
If you did take money you could be charged with theft particular police are they are looking for a school bus driver
that stopped the school bus and grabbed money also for individuals in a white pickup truck that made off with a bag of money as
Far as my official statement here
It's you know you never want to break the law my non official statement is I'm a big believer in Finders Keepers
Especially when you find something from a large faceless organization that has a shit ton of insurance as far as I'm concerned
Unofficially Brinks just donated six hundred thousand dollars to the ground and you know what the ground is there to support all of us
so thank you for your
Contribution and let's talk about this situation with Rudy Giuliani that is everyone freaking out about the Donald Trump
Michael Cohen stormy Daniel situation you have a lot of people saying this is it Rudy accidentally put the nail in Trump's coffin other people
Saying no
Everything seems like a calculated release this really doesn't mean anything, so let's break it down last night Rudy Giuliani former
New York City Mayor
Recent addition to the Trump legal team did an interview with Sean Hannity and during that interview
He revealed that Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the payment to stormy danuel having something to do with paying some stormy Daniels woman
130,000 I mean which is gonna turn out to be perfectly legal
That money was not campaign money. Sorry. I'm giving you a fact now that you don't know it's not campaign money. No
campaign finance violation so they funneled it through the law firm.
Funneled through the law firm. And the president repaid it oh
I didn't know he did yeah, there's no campaign finance law
Zero, so that's the main clip that blew up last night went viral an acknowledgment that Donald Trump paid Michael Cohen back for the payment
To a porn star that was alleging that she had an affair with it before moving forward
It's also important to see what else Giuliani said more specific regarding
how Trump paid Cohen back Giuliani said when I heard Cohen's retainer of
35,000 when he was doing no work for the president mmm
I said that's how he's repaying that's how he's repaying it with a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes for
Michael the Florida, but you know the president didn't know about this
I
Believe that I know about the specifics of it as far as I know
But he did know about the general arrangement that Michael would take care of things like this like I take care of things like this
For my clients. I don't burden them with every single thing that comes along
The busy people after Giuliani made these statements on Hannity people immediately began pointing to previous statements made by Cohen and Trump and just in
Case you don't remember in Cohen's very specific statement from February 13
He said neither the Trump Organization
Nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with miss Clifford and neither reimburse me for the payment either
Directly or indirectly and then of course there were Trump's comments on Air Force One on April 5th
But now back to
Giuliani because after the Hannity interview Giuliani ends up speaking with the Washington Post and he goes into greater detail when asked when was the
President told about these payments Giuliani said he wasn't since it was somewhere between ten and five days before the election and he wasn't told
but even if he was
Told he wouldn't have remembered it like I wouldn't have remembered it when when he paid out of his own personal funds
And if you listen to Cohen's statement it was very careful
He said I wasn't paid from the campaign, and I wasn't paid from the Trump Organization absolutely true
He was paid by Donald Trump's personal fun Giuliani
Also gave him more detail about the payments to Cohen saying that they took place over a period probably in
2017 and saying there may have been one in 2018 also saying do the arithmetic right?
$35,000 a month probably starting in January of February by the time you get to 250,000. It's all paid off remember
He also paid for the taxes then this morning
We had presidents from tweeting and it very much appears to be a copy-paste lawyer tax mr.
Cohen an attorney received a monthly retainer not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign from which he entered into
reimbursement a private contract between two parties
This is 100 percent written by Hillel here a private contract between two parties known as a non-disclosure
Agreement or NDA these agreements are very common among celebrities and people have wealth in this case
It is in full force and effect and will be used in arbitration for damages against miss Clifford Daniels the agreement was used to stop
the false and extortionist
accusations made by her about an affair spite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair prior to its violation by
Miss Clifford and her attorney this was a private agreement money from the campaign or campaign
Contributions played no role in this transaction then this morning
We had Rudy Giuliani going on Fox & Friends where he said this imagine if that came out on October 15th 2016
Yeah, a little of the you know last debate with Hillary Clinton making it go away. They they made this home. He didn't even ask
Cohen did Cohen made it go away
He did his job and that statement could prove to be troublesome for Trump because it does allude it does sound like he's saying this
Decision was made this woman was paid off because it would hurt their campaign a big part of this new Trump
Defense as it was not related to the campaign
It was a personal matter right in the president's legalese light we he wrote a private contract between two parties
This was a private agreement
And this is a note that Lawrence Noble had horns as a senior director and general counsel at the campaign Legal Center
And he said if the purpose of this was to stop Daniels from hurting the camp
then what you have is Cohen made a loan to the campaign and it was an excessive loan because lending the campaign money is a
Contribution who's an excessive?
Contribution until it's repaid and based off of Giuliani statement who is a member of Donald Trump's legal team that appeared to be a big
Part of it also because Cohen is repaid that would make it a loan so that would also need to be listed on the books
It would be required to be reported according to
FEC gov if any person including a relative or friend of a candidate gives or loans the candidate money for the purpose of influencing any
Election for federal office funds are not considered personal funds of the candidate even if they are given to the candidate directly instead the gift
or loan is considered a
Contribution from the donor to the campaign subject to the per election limit and reportable by the campaign this is true
Even if the candidate uses the funds for personal living expenses while campaign and if her election limit part is also
Why people have been pointing out that it's not only a contribution that is seemingly was not reported
but in an excessive
contribution also based on Giuliani statements to both the Washington Post and Sean Hannity as far as how the
payment process went
It sure as hell sounds like that if we bend over
Backwards to act like Donald Trump didn't know any of this was going on based off of the long term
Payment plan and the specific comments by the time the Donald Trump made those statements on April 5th saying that he didn't know that's a
lie and once again
Just just past the the regular legal troubles that we're talking about with this situation one
it should be concerning to you that you have a president or
Administration that it that has these secrets because it does make them vulnerable
To blackmail it does make them vulnerable to extortion then also to I know that we're so far down this road
But when we have people in power lying that should matter
We've gotten so used to it that it's almost not interesting anymore that it's just exhausting because there's so many
Situations like this when the source of the lies comes from the top when the source of the lies is also the same source
That's trying to make it so the people don't trust anything whatsoever in the news unless it's a piece. That's praising them
That should be of concern I get that it can be exhausting, but truth should matter people should be held accountable
We've got to try even if it's just a small percentage. We've got to try to push through the tribalism
We have to try and push through the oh well. I have to defend my person and fuck your person
I know that's what I'm gonna end this one of course like every show. That's the story
That's my opinion, and then I'd love to hear yours
And that's where I'm going to end today's show and remember if you like this video
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