The prosecution of Backpage and its publishers was a politically-minded falsehood, part of a campaign to stop sex workers from advertising.

This is why I do not support Kamala Harris. Her campaign struck me as not merely wrong, but dishonest.

It seems that many sex workers are enslaved, while many others are working freely on their own terms. World-wide, workers are enslaved in many other areas of work: manicure, farming, fishing, construction, domestic help, from what I recall at this moment. It is very important to free people from enslavement, but prohibiting manicure, farming, fishing, construction, domestic help and sex work is not the way. We need laws aimed at the practice of enslavement and its methods, not at these jobs.