9/27/20 survey of proposed Sec 230 changes in September of 2020

Here is the link to my September 27, 2020, Twitter thread about some of the then-recent proposed updates to Sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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8/7/20 thoughts on the TikTok scandal, COPPA, and Sec. 230

Here is the link to my August 7, 2020, Twitter thread of thoughts about the role the TikTok scandal was playing in generating more consensus in America for things like updates to COPPA and Sec. 230, which I feel could destroy freedom of speech online.

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10/2/19 discussion of why I don't like COPPA 2.0

Here is the link to my October 2, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about why I do not like COPPA 2.0, one of the many proposed updates to Section 230 and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

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6/15/19 discussion of sex paranoia and LGBTQ freedom of expression

Here is the link to my June 15, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about the need for LGBTQ rights activists and other pro-equality activists to consider the effect sex paranoia has on freedom of speech, especially for LGBTQ people.

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5/6/19 discussion about going to jail for art

Here is the link to my May 6, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about my willingness to go to jail for my art.

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12/3/18 discussion about FOSTA-SESTA and Tumblr

Here is the link to my December 3, 2018, Twitter thread of threads about FOSTA-SESTA. I'd put this thread of threads together as a sort of initial reaction to the news about the Tumblr purge.

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6/15/18 discussion about the US Code and FOSTA-SESTA

Here is the link to my June 15, 2018, Twitter thread discussion about some research I did into the US Code to understand FOSTA-SESTA better.

As I've mentioned a lot before, I was deeply concerned when Congress passed FOSTA-SESTA in early 2018, as I felt the law would threaten freedom of sexual speech in general.

This thread signifies a turning point in my ideas about FOSTA-SESTA, as it really is when I decided to stop focusing on all sexual speech and to start focusing only on sex work decriminalization.

I don't think my choice was 100% smart. And I think I've spent about a year now trying to refocus myself on other aspects of freedom of sexual speech that actually are gravely impacted by FOSTA-SESTA and other laws like it.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

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5/9/18 review of some independent FOSTA-SESTA research

Here is the link to my May 9, 2018, Twitter thread review of some FOSTA-SESTA research I was doing independently.

This thread links to a lot of the really great resources, including in my home state of Colorado, that got me started understanding the huge impact FOSTA-SESTA would have on sex work, and which got me shifting to thinking of FOSTA-SESTA as less of a free speech issue and more of a sex worker rights issue.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads out of chronological order through 2018 and 2019. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

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4/11/18 review of research on FOSTA-SESTA's effect on free weekly papers

Here is the link to my April 11, 2018, Twitter thread review of some additional research I did into FOSTA-SESTA.

This thread mainly deals with impacts of FOSTA-SESTA on free weekly papers, as I'd been hearing back from them a little more as I'd done some independent research.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads, through 2018 and 2019, out of chronological order. This thread is still coherent. But it definitely is twisted out of shape. My apologies.

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4/6/18 discussion about sexual censorship

Here is the link to a Twitter thread I did in April of 2018 about sexual censorship.

This -- very long! -- thread was partly written in reaction to the April, 2018, raid on Backpage, following the passage (not enactment) of FOSTA-SESTA.

My views on FOSTA-SESTA were still mostly focused at that time on the law's effect on freedom of online sexual expression. And I was still trying to work through how my years of study, both with age of consent laws and youth/adult romance and with marriage equality backlash, connected with online sexual expression.

The thread mentions stories such as those of Kaitlyn Hunt, Helen Goddard, the man who tried to marry his laptop, Jocelyn Morffi, Stacey Bailey, Chris Isherwood, Don Bachardy, Mary Kay Letourneau, Vili Fualaau, Ali Michael, and Melanie Martinez. It mentions online expression in conjunction with a Maggie Jones New York Times article on porn and education. And it mentions my own amateur novel, Summer Azure.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is pretty badly affected. My apologies.

3/31/18 discussion about FOSTA-SESTA

Here is the link to a Twitter thread discussion I did in March of 2018 about the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017, or FOSTA-SESTA.

This thread came after I'd read FOSTA-SESTA a couple of times and had more time to research the sex work industry and how that industry regards issues about sex trafficking. The thread reflects that thought but also my continuing thoughts on freedom of sexual expression, the sexual expression of LGBTQ people, and the way this law seems to target both of those things online. The thread also asks if the online platforms people use every day have gotten so big, they need to be thought of as vehicles of free speech, not just as companies. And it questions sex- and LGBTQ-related police activity and initiatives in my home state of Colorado.

3/25/18 reaction to passage of FOSTA-SESTA

Here is the link to my Twitter thread reaction to the March, 2018, passage of FOSTA-SESTA by the US Senate.

The thread gives a summary and some background on HR 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA-SESTA, as well as my experience with having gotten to understand it over the preceding month. I provide my own perspective on the history of laws like FOSTA-SESTA, why they don't protect kids, and why they hurt women, the LGBTQ community, and freedom of sexual expression, online and in real life. It also discusses my belief, which I amplified over the coming years, that sex work should be totally decriminalized.

My understanding of sex laws, sex work laws, and child exploitation laws, evolved quite a bit after this thread. So while I agree with a lot of what this thread says, I do feel that some of it misses the mark.

The tweets in some of my threads are twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is greatly affected. My apologies.