YC Startup Is Helping the Cops Track Sex Workers Online
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> What this means is that there's a good chance that if you've placed an ad online in the last two years for escorting, massage, BDSM, stripping, private modeling, nude housekeeping, selling your underwear, or any other permutation of the various sexual services people can put on offer, Rescue Forensics has a copy. And because Rescue Forensics has a copy, so do their users in law enforcement.
One could and probably will argue that RF is making a tool and that the moral responsibility to use that tool rests with law enforcement. That is a cop out, we all have to take ownership of the technologies we create or enable. We enable the noble as well at the nefarious with each new technological advance. To create a project, aimed at generating revenue via US law enforcement is at this point in history is morally reprehensible.
As the War on Drugs shrinks, revenue will have to be generated elsewhere.
If health issue and reducing STD's was the primary concern, making prostitution illegal could have adverse affects. People like sex. Those sorts of people will sleep around at bars and clubs. For sex. Being promiscuous and sleeping around is more likely to spread STD's than a regulated sex market (EG: requiring licenses and STD checks of the workers). Without hard statistics and data backing up either side of the argument though... it's a tough call.
Also the gray-area loopholes like escorts - many of whom are hired for their sexual favours.
We waste a lot of time and resources on something that should be inconsequential - barring forced prostitution (which would be illegal under other terms).
I just don't get it.
Yes I'm talking about drugs. No, I'm not talking about cartels and violence. It's 2015, and in most jurisdictions it's still illegal for me to grow a plant, on my own property, and then smoke said plant because I find it enjoyable.
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