Students Build Virtual Reality Massage Parlor for Cops
You know, to "fight human trafficking."
You know, to "fight human trafficking."
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Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus.
The operation is still arresting sex workers and calling it a rescue mission.
The bipartisan bill says "using drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act" or in any kind of labor counts as human trafficking.
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'We know what we want to do with our bodies, and we don't need government interference.'
The bill also targets strip clubs
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Nonetheless, a judge will let a sex trafficking complaint against Weinstein proceed.
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We were told this sort of spying would only be used to stop terrorists. And yet...
Nine women face felony prostitution charges and hundreds of their customers have been arrested. Florida says it's the real victim.
Authorities are walking back big claims about an international human-trafficking ring involving Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
It's also part of a larger national attack on massage parlors and sex workers.
Government statistics often show more reports of both. That doesn't mean either is on the rise.
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Occupational licensing programs deprive people of livelihoods and often don't improve public health.
How big hotel chains became arms of the surveillance state.
The Super Bowl is around the corner and a popular sex trafficking myth is back.
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The PATRIOT Act fell out of fashion-but swap "human trafficker" for "terrorist" and let the civil liberties infringements roll!
Elizabeth Nolan Brown exposes the flimsy case against the alt-weekly pioneers accused of facilitating sex trafficking through Backpage.com.
Representatives of the oldest profession were on Capitol Hill fighting FOSTA and SESTA, with our online freedoms hanging in the balance.
The bill makes "promoting prostitution" a federal crime, holds websites legally liable for user-posted content, and lets states retroactively prosecute offenders.
"Congress has spoken on this matter and it is for Congress, not this court, to revisit." Except for maybe later this afternoon...
"Make no mistake; Kamala Harris has won all that she was looking to win when she had us arrested."
Federal legislators are calling on Justice Department to be more proactive about using the 2015 sex-trafficking law.
A federal appeals court tells Tom Dart to stop threatening payment processors that do business with the classified-ad site.
The columnist thinks you should go out of business if some of your customers are criminals.
Closing sites like Backpage.com puts trafficking victims at even more risk.