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Internet censorship bill

vendredi 4 août 2017 à 02:00

EFF: Internet Censorship Bill Would Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation.

"Sex trafficking" is a weasely term. Nominally it means forcing people into prostitution, but I've seen articles which seem to use it to include voluntary prostitution (which is, after all, trafficking in sex). Those articles try to take our proper condemnation of enslavement and misapply it to prostitutes in general.

The distinction between prostitution and enslavement is crucial, so we should reject any terms that blur the distinction, such as "sex trafficking". Laws should not use that term.

The article also uses the term "content" which treats publications as a fungible substance or commodity. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.