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(2) Maybe if civil litigation - which is incredibly inaccessible to most people - is the only thing we have to offer victims of harm, lets re-think our approach & not use this flawed system which won't actually be accessible even after this carve out, to most people. But no. (12/

(2) The carve out also uses *state* laws as well. This means that every single state aggressive about prosecution can pass an incredible sweeping law or have an overly aggressive prosecutor, and since the internet doesn't stop at a state border, impact the whole country (13/

(2) If you don't believe me on that one, look at why C i t y x g u i d e was prosecuted in North Texas. (14/

There are four other amendments which do a variety of other things (@SenCoonsOffice, thanks for literally being the only one talking about money into victim services), but the Manager's Amendment is the most sweeping and will have the most impact. (15/

But there are two things which we need to focus on for why this is bad, and they don't actually show up in a single amendment and NO ONE BUT S E X W O R K E R S are saying them, so please don't think that the tech companies give a shit about anything but their bottom line (16/

First - The structure of the commission has not changed. It is still AG Barr, DHS, FTC, 2 cops, 2 prosecutors, 4 people from tech, 2 lawyers, 2 computer programmers, & 4 survivors of CSAM OR service providers to young ppl sitting at the DOJ determining best practices (17/

That means that NO ONE from the sex trade will have a voice, no one will be considering harm reduction, no one will be thinking about how "age gating" of communications impact queen youth trying to learn basic LGBTQ sex ed, no one is accountable to those most impacted (18/

It also means that despite s e x workers being the *only* ones who predicted the ramifications of FOSTA/SESTA, the *only* ones doing mutual aid in its aftermath, the *only* ones documenting its impact - there are structural barriers which mean the experts cannot participate (19/