How adult workers are fighting for everyone’s online privacy
How adult workers are fighting for everyone’s online privacy
https://mashable.com/life/adult-workers-are-fighting-for-digital-privacy-security
Publish Date: 2026-06-08 05:00:00
Source Domain: mashable.com
As governments and tech companies shape the future of online privacy, sex workers around the world are organizing to push back against threats to our freedom of speech and data ownership.
“We know from experience that sex workers are the beta testers for taking away people’s digital rights,” says Ana Ornelas, digital policy officer at the European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance (ESWA). ESWA represents more than 100 member organizations in 30 countries in Western, Eastern, and Central Europe and Central Asia.
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Take FOSTA/SESTA, twin laws in the U.S. passed in 2018 to ostensibly stop online sex trafficking, but in actuality, made it harder for sex workers and others who work in adult industries to exist online. Big Tech platforms cracked down on sexual content, resulting in bans and shadowbans that persist today. Multiple studies have found that this makes adult workers less safe.
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