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by neolog 5y ago
Forced labor and violent abuse are common in many industries eg [1][2]. That said, abuse in the sex industry is more widespread and horrible than I realized. Knowing what I know now I would've responded differently. [1] https:/&#
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by neolog 5y ago
The four women I quoted are pointing out that workers prefer to have safer venues for doing business, more community connections, and better legal support for their business. To avoid cases of exploitation, improving social welfare is a go
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by neolog 5y ago
The NSA's mandate concerns sigint, so that's what they do. Other entities (eg the PCLOB and federal courts) can constrain it, and the NSA constrains itself proactively to avoid embarrassments. The current result is a tradeoff betw
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by neolog 5y ago
It wasn't supposed to be a gotcha. Coerced work is bad, especially so if the work is damaging to the worker. My point is that this isn't specific to sex work. Products produced by workers under wage slavery can be avoided using su
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by neolog 5y ago
The article uses innuendo to suggest that nonconsensual videos were very popular on the platform and that its proposed policies will improve performers' conditions. These questions are not seriously examined, but the article is focused
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by neolog 5y ago
I don't equate sex to manual labor, they are of course different. But it won't do to reduce manual labor or disability care to "kicking a shovel into the dirt" either. Each of the physical occupations I listed plays a cr
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by neolog 5y ago
I don't think that distinction is useful on this question. Lots of non-sex physical work involves just being present, and lots of sex work involves skill.
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by neolog 5y ago
Do you think enjoying the product of all coerced labor is wrong, or only sexual coerced labor?
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by neolog 5y ago
Bodies are used commercially all the time, such as in manual labor, physical therapy, disability care, security, policing, military service, athletics, dancing, commercial modeling, ... The problem that's particular to sex work is lega
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by neolog 5y ago
I agree the perpetrators are to blame for violence and the poverty/abuse to blame for victims' inability to obtain redress. But the legal system has a role to play in ensuring noncoercion and empowering workers, which it's cu
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by neolog 5y ago
Controlling children's social environment to direct them into emotional dependence on corporate stimulation is really harmful. Unfortunately MasterCard doesn't seem to be working on that problem.
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by neolog 5y ago
Nixery kinda seems like a toy. Does it have some more serious use?
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by neolog 5y ago
Consent is a real issue. The problem is advocates apply pressure to eliminate sex work even under clear consent, because safety isn't their actual goal. See OnlyFans, Craigslist for example.
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by neolog 5y ago
The industrial producers have been doing that for decades. The problem is that the real goal of these groups is to make sex work harder, not safer. For example, research on the take-down of reputable sex work sites harms workers by removing
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by neolog 5y ago
Context and quantification are needed, not sensationalism. Yes there are real accounts of abuse. The problem is that the policies adopted aren't actually directed at solving those problems with minimum harm to people involved; they ar
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by neolog 5y ago
A lot of the attacks against amateur porn and sex work are by religious groups masking their actual motive by focusing on consent verification. Verification raises the barrier and makes performers much more vulnerable since their legal iden
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by neolog 5y ago
I can only point to other people who know more than me. https://stratechery.com/2021/apples-mistake/ is a smart tech commentator https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/opinion/apple
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by neolog 5y ago
I'd say the primary differences are that the CSAM scan is a perceptual hash rather than a regular file hash, and that the technical infrastructure of the CSAM system is designed from the ground up to be used against (rather than for) t
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by neolog 5y ago
What technology are you referring to as already deployed?
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by neolog 5y ago
Without the technology deployed, Apple can (and did) say they don't have the ability to break into users' phones. If Apple deploys on-phone scanning, governments can just tell Apple to support a new list. It won't be the NCME
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by neolog 5y ago
> CSAM scanning is irrelevant to 99.99999% of Apple's customers How long until an group of governments tells Apple to add Tank Man to the list?
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by neolog 5y ago
The "duty" to maximize profit is a myth. Many legal scholars have written about this. Here's one https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/08/24/stakeholder-gover...
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by neolog 5y ago
FLoC is open source in Chromium. They're not lying about that. What they do with Google-specific information originating from Chrome is where skepticism applies.
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by neolog 5y ago
Wow, what did she think it was for?
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Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
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by neolog 5y ago
It's easy to forget how rare it is for some people to get any romantic validation in their lives. You finally meet someone who appreciates you, and then it turns out to be some asshole messing with you and mocking you publicly -- that&
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by neolog 5y ago
Do you have a farm or something?
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by neolog 5y ago
China is threatening to attack Taiwan. https://www.rand.org/blog/2021/06/the-signal-and-the-noise-u...
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by neolog 5y ago
https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/how_many_confucius_institu...
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by neolog 5y ago
https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#editor-benchmar... Atom is the Electron-based editor from GitHub. It's way slower than the others. I can't think of any Electron apps that have low response latenc

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