fter completing this activity, you should be able to:

• Explain the ways in which technological change has facilitated both sex trafficking and its opponents.
• Analyze the cultural differences between the various anti-trafficking groups and show how they shape their strategies and their visions of technological changes and their role.
• Practice applying cultural awareness and sensitivity in specifying how these resolution strategies affect sex workers.

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In an article entitled There Is No New Backpage Links to an external site., written in 2019, a year after the Fosta legislation was passed, the conclusion is:

If the goal is to improve outcomes, lawmakers should consider the reality that sex trafficking victims and sex workers aren the same. And in such a criminalized area, built on informal economies and fragile business arrangements with often deeply imbalanced power dynamics, any crackdown that attempts to help one community could be a tragedy for another.

In a brief essay, drawing on the arguments in Aja Romano’s article Links to an external site.and your own POV, make the case either for or against the FOSTA legislation and the closing of Backpage.