12/22/20 review of another US Congress anti-sex bill

Here is the link to my December 22, 2020, Twitter thread reaction to another anti-sex bill proposed in US Congress.

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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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6/4/20 review of Amy Werbel talk -- What Would Benjamin Franklin Think About Facebook?

Here is the link to my June 4, 2020, Twitter thread review of the Benjamin Franklin House discussion between Amy Werbel and Caitlin Hoffman, asking What Would Benjamin Franklin Think About Facebook?

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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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9/7/19 discussion about sex work and age of consent laws

Here is the link to my September 7, 2019, Twitter thread discussion -- essentially about how I felt sex work theorists and activists were ignoring the role age of consent laws have played in the history of sex work laws.

This thread is horribly written. And, honestly, I'm not a fan of my opinion pieces, the threads that are all opinion, with no new research. However I wanted to include this thread in this table of contents because I definitely still believe a lot of what I'm saying here.

There are some sex worker rights groups who include youth sex workers as part of their discussion. And plenty of folks who are involved in the fight to decriminalize sex work also talk about some really important aspects of the lives of LGBTQ youth -- such as rejection by parents, homelessness, and unemployment.

However, even in 2021, there remains an absolute refusal among sex worker rights activists to recognize the very close historical connection between age of consent laws and sex work laws.

It's hard for me to stress how important I feel it is to recognize the connection between age of consent laws and sex work laws. And, as I've continued to talk about sex work over the years, I've tried to keep my focus on this one aspect of the issue.

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6/26/19 thread about COPPA 2.0

Here is the link to my June 26, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about COPPA 2.0 -- legislation which proposed a number of different restrictions to youth access to the internet, including raising the "internet age of consent" from 13 to 16 years.

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

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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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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.