April 21, 2021 by Maggie McNeill
[Prohibitionists] are to blame for the fear sex workers live with, and the deaths that follow. - Mary Moody
The Course of a Disease (#342) Business As UsualWow, a headline writer without a boot permanently lodged in his mouth:
...[a typical and representative New Haven] cop [named] Gary Gamarra [claimed that his rapes of] two different...sex workers [were OK because they wanted it]...Gamarra resigned from the force after [lying about] the [rapes, but]...now he's seeking to have the resignation rescinded [so he can] get...back [to raping again]. The police chief, meanwhile, is seeking to have the state bar Gamarra from ever serving as a police officer in Connecticut again. And the state's attorney's office has decided...[not] to pursue a criminal case against Gamarra [because whores. Other "officials" thought it was much more important to note that he was not wearing his magic clown costume at the time of the rapes]...
It's just going to keep getting worse:
...the gaming chat platform Discord [has] quietly updated its guidelines to restrict adult content, issuing a ban on users accessing NSFW servers...on iOS devices...entire servers, as opposed to individual channels, are...designated NSFW if the community "is organized around NSFW content or whose content is predominantly 18+"...It will still be possible for Discord users to access NSFW servers on its desktop version, and on Android...[because] the...policy shift was intended "to comply with Apple's policies"...
See also " The Next Target " below.
To Molest and Rape (#1066)Just protecting and serving:
...the Boston Police Department in 1995 filed a criminal complaint against [rapist cop Patrick Rose]...for sexual assault on a 12-year-old [boy], and...an internal investigation...concluded that he [was] likely [guilty, but he was allowed to]...ke[ep] his badge...for another 21 years, and rose to power in the [pig] union...his [victim grew up and lasy year discovered that] Rose [had been raping his daughter since she was 7]...The department's cover-up]...left Rose free to [rape] again and again, from one generation to the next...
China is ramping up its propaganda campaign against those who tell the truth about the ongoing Uighur genocide:
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denounced more than a dozen [people who escaped]...Xinjiang...as liars, criminals, terrorists, and persons of "bad morality"...in a bid to undermine reports of abuses that have led... Western nations to [recognize that China is conducting] ...a campaign of genocide. [The propaganda also claims that of about 12,000 known victims listed in several]...database[s]...nearly 1,350 were "fabricated"...nearly 7,000 are "living a normal life," while some 3,250 "have been convicted and sentenced for crimes of violent terrorism and criminal offenses"...[and] another 500 had either died of diseases or are living in foreign countries...
The prohibitionist crusade against all adult material online continues:
Mastercard Inc. is "[tightening] the requirements it sets for banks that process payments for sellers of adult content"...the company will demand "clear, unambiguous and documented consent...[and] document[ation of] the age and [government-approved] identity of anyone depicted in pictures and videos as well as those uploading the content...the banks...will need to certify that the...sites have a review process prior to any content being published, as well as a system for complaints that addresses illegal or non-consensual activity within seven business days...[including] an appeals process that allows for anyone depicted in adult videos or photos to request that the content be removed"...
Predictable Consequences (#1126) 
I've been pointing out the inherent violence of prohibitionism for years:
...While Exodus Cry has largely tried to get Pornhub shut down using political and social media pressure, its rhetoric is used by people who want to take matters into their own hands. Sex workers and organizations targeted by those people believe that the rhetoric is going to lead to real world violence, and say that several high-profile mass killings can be traced back to anti-sex worker rhetoric more broadly... these groups have used extremist language and tapped into QAnon sentiment toward child trafficking, so it...is...not the least bit surprising, to see extremists using Nazi paraphernalia, death threats and photos of weapons alongside Exodus Cry's Traffickinghub logo ...
It seems as though Vice is now trying to distance itself from this evil hysteria, which it has always tacitly supported via its credulous attitude toward "sex trafficking" propaganda.
