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swiftcoder 6 days ago

> there's a lot of sex trafficking going on in the porn industry, but not so much in the censorship industry

[citation needed]

I'll grant that there is sex trafficking going on at least in the fringes of the porn industry - but that's at least in part because of censorship. If porn production was widely legal and appropriately regulated, there'd be significantly less market for the edgy stuff filmed in Eastern European basements (i.e. the exact same argument as for marijuana legalisation).

There are also a bunch of regimes around the world who love censorship, and also engage in a bunch of human trafficking. For example, the UAE is notorious for both widespread censorship, and an entire class of foreign workers in various forms of indentured servitude (which for women is often prostitution)...

innocentoldguy 4 days ago | parent [-]

Here you go:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/us/pornhub-sex-traffickin...

https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-trafficking-in-persons-re...

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/breaking/npos-more-...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/girlsdoporn-owner-micha...

https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-porn-20160613...

swiftcoder 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm not clear that any of those run contrary to what I said?

Regulation and enforcement thereof is obviously a necessary part of ensuring that porn producers are operating legally/safely, and if porn production were more widely legal/regulated then these fly-by-night trafficking operations wouldn't thrive