RECENTLY, DONALD TRUMP SIGNED LEGISLATION INTO LAW THAT
WOULD POTENTIALLY HELP CURB SEX TRAFFICKING BUT ACTUALLY HAS A
NUMBER OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OR MAYBE EVEN
INTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
IT IS KNOWN AS THE FOSTA-SESTA LEGISLATION WHICH AGAIN, WAS
SIGNED INTO LAW.
THAT PART OF THE LEGISLATION WAS COMBINED WITH THE SYSTEM
COMPONENT AND I WILL GET TO THE DETAILS OF ALL OF THAT IN JUST A
SECOND.
THIS IS PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT IT INFRINGES ON
CERTAIN PROTECTIONS THAT WEBSITES HAD PREVIOUSLY SO IT
IS KNOWN AS SECTION 230, ALSO KNOWN AS THE SAFE HARBOR RULE
UNDER THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT THAT WAS PASSED IN 1996.
ESSENTIALLY WHAT IT WOULD DO IS PROTECT WEBSITES FROM ANY TYPE
OF CHARGES STEMMING FROM A THIRD-PARTY DOING ILLEGAL
THINGS ON THE SITE.
SO FOR INSTANCE, IF REDDIT HAPPENS HAVE A FORUM WHERE
PEOPLE ARE SOLICITING PROSTITUTION, THE PEOPLE
WORKING AT REDDIT WOULDN'T BE HELD LIABLE FOR THAT BUT UNDER
THIS NEW LAW THAT TRUMP JUST SIGNED, THEY COULD POTENTIALLY
BE HELD LIABLE SO AGAIN, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
I'M JUST GOING TO JUMP IN FOR ONE SECOND.
I BELIEVE FULLY THAT THEY ARE INTENDED, BUT IT IS A MIXED BAG.
I THINK A LOT OF THE CELEBRITIES THAT SUPPORTED IT DID SO AT
THE URGING OF THEIR CORPORATIONS AS THEY WORK FOR.
I THINK
THEY PROBABLY HAD GOOD INTENT.
SOME OF THEM MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO FIND OUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY
IN THE LAW OR THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE LAW.
I THINK THAT PROBABLY SOME OF THE SENATORS WHO VOTED FOR DID
NOT INTEND TO HAVE THE CONSEQUENCES THAT YOU WERE
TALKING ABOUT AND THOSE CONSEQUENCES CAN BE ABSOLUTELY
DIRE AS WE'RE GOING TO EXPLAIN
IN A SECOND BUT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ORCHESTRATED THIS, IT WAS
FULLY INTENDED.
THIS IS PART OF AN EFFORT TO SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET.
THE WINDOW IS CLOSING.
THEY ATTACKED NET NEUTRALITY.
NOW WITH FOSTA
AND SESTA, THEY ARE COMING TO KNOCK OUT A LOT OF THE SMALLER
AND MIDSIZED WEBSITES AND THIS IS A BACKDOOR WAY OF BEING
ABLE TO DO THAT AND IT IS DESPICABLE.
BY THE WAY, SOMEBODY PUT OUT SOME SORT OF NONSENSE THAT
HAPPENS NONSTOP THAT WE WERE FOR
THIS LEGISLATION.
THAT IS MADNESS, WE ARE 100% AGAINST IT.
THE ALLEGATION IS SINCE WE HADN'T COVERED THE STORY WHICH
TO BE QUITE HONEST WITH YOU, WAS NOT OUR RADER, THAT IS WHY WE
DID NOT TALK ABOUT IT BUT THE ALLEGATION WAS SINCE WE HAD
NOT COVERED AS SOON AS IT BROKE THAT WE WERE SUPPORTIVE OF
THIS LEGISLATION.
WE ARE NOT SUPPORTIVE OF IT, WE ARE AGAINST IT AND WE ACTUALLY
SPOKE TO JANICE GRIFFITH WHO WORKS IN THE PORN INDUSTRY AND
SHE EXPLAINED PERFECTLY WHY THIS IS ACTUALLY DAMAGING TO PEOPLE
WHO WORK IN THE SEX INDUSTRY.
TAKE A LOOK.
ONE OF THE MOST BOTHERSOME THINGS AS OF LATE IS SEEING
HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES
CHAMPIONING THIS CAUSE AND THE ATTEMPT TO FIGHT ONLINE SEX
TRAFFICKING AND TO BE VERY RIGHTEOUS WHEN IN FACT, THEY
DON'T UNDERSTAND THE LAW THAT
THEY ARE ENDORSING AND IT IS HURTING CONSENSUAL WORKERS.
AS WORKERS, WE'VE BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT THESE ISSUES FOR
MILLENNIA.
WE'VE BEEN ASKING PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO US.
WE'VE BEEN ASKING PEOPLE TO AMPLIFY OUR VOICES AND INSTEAD,
PEOPLE WITH INFLUENCE ARE SPEAKING OVER US AND SAYING THAT
THEY KNOW BETTER THAN US.
THIS BILL WORLD PUSH TRAFFICKERS FURTHER UNDERGROUND AND OUT OF
THE LIGHT AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT WILL HURT CONSENSUAL WORKERS
AND HAS ALREADY STARTED TO DO SO THESE WORKERS HAVE BEEN PUSHED
ONTO THE STREET FROM THE CLOSURE OF BACKPAGE AND ARE ONLINE
COMMUNITIES WHERE WE CAN SHARE
HARM REDUCTION RESOURCES ARE DISAPPEARING.
THIS LAW DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS SECTION 230
OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT THAT ALLOWS FORUMS AND
SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LIKE TO EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE.
SO I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT THERE ARE TWO HUGE AND
DISTINCT PROBLEMS WITH THIS BILL.
WHAT IS ABOUT SEX WORKERS, AND THE OTHER IS AT THAT INTERNET
ALL OVERALL.
LET'S THE SEX WORKERS FOR A SECOND SOON, BY THE WAY, I'M
GOING TO HAVE NINA HARTLEY BACK ON THE PROGRAM, WE WILL HAVE HER
ON REBEL HEADQUARTERS STARTED A LONG INTERVIEW WITH HER BEFORE.
SHE IS AN ADULT FILM ACTRESS, LEGENDARY WANTED THAT TO TALK
MORE ABOUT IT.
BUT IN THE CASE OF SEX WORKERS, THIS IS WHAT I MEAN BY
INTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
PEOPLE CONSTANTLY PUT SEX TRAFFICKING IN THE SAME AREA
AS CONSENSUAL SEX WORKERS.
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.
THEY ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
THEY ARE DIAMETRICALLY DIFFERENT.
IT IS PREPOSTEROUS.
SO ONE SIDE SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY LEGAL BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING
WRONG WITH CONSENSUAL SEX WORK AND TO SAY THAT SOMEHOW EVERY
PERSON INVOLVED IN THAT LINE OF WORK IS MANIPULATED, CANNOT
MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS, CANNOT GIVE CONSENT AND IS SOMEHOW
PART OF SEX TRAFFICKING IS MANIACAL, IT IS PURITANICAL,
IT IS THE KIND OF THING THAT BEN SHAPIRO SAYS IT.
ALL PORN IS THAT, ALL OF THIS IS BAD, THE MORALLY RIGHTEOUS
BOTH ON THE RIGHT AND NOW, SOMETIMES ON THE LEFT.
NO, PEOPLE CAN MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS AND STOP LUMPING
THEM IN TOGETHER.
SEX TRAFFICKING IS MONSTROUS BUT LET US ACTUALLY ATTACK THAT
ISSUE.
THIS DOESN'T EVEN DO THAT, IT HAS NOTHING SPECIFIC IN THIS
BUILD ACTUALLY GO AFTER THE PEOPLE DOING THE SEX
TRAFFICKING THAT IS NONCONSENSUAL.
PUTTING ON THE SAME CAMP TOGETHER IS DONE ON PURPOSE TO
STIGMATIZE SEX WORK AND BY THE WAY, ADULT FILMS AND SO IT IS
PART OF A CONCERTED EFFORT TO IMPOSE THEIR SO-CALLED
MORALITY ON THE REST OF US.
RIGHT.
SO ANOTHER THING THAT I WANTED TO MENTION WAS THAT THIS
OVERWHELMINGLY PASSED IN THE SENATE.
THERE WERE ONLY TWO SENATORS WHO VOTED AGAINST IT INCLUDING
RAND PAUL AND RON WYDEN.
RAND PAUL IS LIBERTARIAN, WYDEN IS A DEMOCRAT AND WYDEN HAD
ASKED FOR AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD FURTHER CLARIFY THIS
LEGISLATION SO IT WOULD NOT HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON SMALLER
WEBSITES AND THE SENATE DECIDED NO, WE DO NOT WANT TO DO THEN
THEY DECIDED TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF
THE BILL IN THE WAY THAT IT WAS ALREADY WRITTEN AND AGAIN, IT
HAS ALSO CONSEQUENCES, NOT JUST FOR SEX WORKERS BUT ALSO TO
WEBSITES AND IT HAS ARTIE HAD SOME IMPACT WHEN IT COMES TO
REDDIT.
REDDIT HAS SHUT DOWN CERTAIN SUB REDDIT BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID
THEY DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO MONITOR EVERY LITTLE THING THAT
IS SET ON THEIR WEBSITE AND BACKPAGE IS GONE, CRAIGSLIST HAS
We
GOTTEN RID OF ITS PERSONALS PAGE BECAUSE THEY ARE WORRIED THAT
THERE COULD BE CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST THEM IF SOMEONE SOLICITS
SEXUAL ACTIVITY SO THIS IS ALREADY HAVING A CRIPPLING
EFFECT AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO FIGHT AGAINST BECAUSE
I DO THINK THAT THERE ARE SOME WEBSITES, BIGGER WEBSITES WHO
WANT A MONOPOLY AND THEY WANT TO SHUT DOWN THE COMPETITION.
THIS IS ONE WAY OF DOING IT.
AND HOLLYWOOD WANTS TO SHUT DOWN THE COMPETITION AS WELL.
DISNEY PUSHED FOR THIS BIG TIME, FOX, AND LOOK, BY THE WAY, THE
PROGRESSIVE SENATORS THAT ARE ACTUAL PROGRESSIVES THAT VOTED
FOR THIS MADE A MISTAKE AND I HOPE THAT THEY RECOGNIZE THAT
IT IS A MISTAKE.
THAT INCLUDES BERNIE SANDERS AND ELIZABETH WARREN.
THIS WAS THE WRONG VOTE AND THEY SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT THEY
RIGHT TO REVERSE IT.
GOD HELP US ON HOW WE CAN REVERSE THIS.
NOW LET ME JUST DO ONE MORE EXPLANATION OF WHY IT IS SO
DAMAGING FOR THE WHOLE INTERNET
BECAUSE IF YOU ARE ON A SMALL
TO MIDSIZE WEBSITE, THEY NOW CAN
TURN AROUND AND SAY TO YOU WELL, SOMEBODY IN YOUR COMMENTS
SECTION THAT YOU NEVER EVEN READ OFFERED UP SERVICES AND YOU
DID NOT CATCH THEM.
THAT IS IT, I AM SHUTTING DOWN YOUR WHOLE WEBSITE.
THAT IS HOW THEY CLOSED THE WINDOW IN THE WHOLE INTERNET.
YOU DON'T HAVE A TON OF MONEY?
THE INTERNET DEMOCRATIZED THE FLOW OF INFORMATION AND THE
PEOPLE IN THIS AND THE ONES WITH THE POWER, ESPECIALLY
CORPORATE POWER, THEY HATE THAT.
THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE POWER.
THEY DO NOT WANT THAT INFORMATION DEMOCRITIZED,
THEY ARE GOING TO COME FOR ALL INDEPENDENT MEDIA AND FOR
THESE INDEPENDENT WEBSITES.
THEY'RE GOING TO DO THROUGH NET NEUTRALITY AND THEY'RE GOING
TO DO IT THROUGH THIS BUT LOOK AT THE THREE THINGS THAT ARE
PASSED SO FAR UNDER THE OTHERWISE INCOMPETENT
ADMINISTRATION OF DONALD TRUMP.
GIANT TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS AND TWO THINGS TO
SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET.
CORPORATE POWER IS BACK AND IT IS LOOKING TO CRUSH US ALL.