As Expected, Those Who Pushed For FOSTA Are Now Looking To Kill Off Porn

As Expected, Those Who Pushed For FOSTA Are Now Looking To Kill Off Porn

Tue, May 19th 2020 3:33pm — Mike Masnick

A few years back, when the campaign to use FOSTA (then called SESTA) as a way to chip away at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act by creating a misleading moral panic around “sex trafficking” was in full swing, we pointed out that it was really a precursor to trying to outlaw all pornography. I highlighted how a key group pushing for FOSTA, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), didn’t even bother to hide that its real target was outlawing all pornography. NCOSE, as we pointed out, started life as “Morality in Media” and only changed its name later when it realized that everyone was ignoring them acting like fussy prudish pearl-clutchers, and decided that if they pretended they were about “exploitation” it would give them more credibility.

A key part of NCOSE’s campaign is to lump porn, prostitution, and “sexual objectification in media” into the exact same bucket as child abuse and sex trafficking, even though there’s a massive difference there. But it shouldn’t come as any surprise that as NCOSE has now expanded to create an “International” (ICOSE) branch, it has done so by kicking off a silly program demanding that credit card companies stop working with porn sites like Pornhub. Of course, in true NCOSE fashion, it insists that porn sites are really engaged in sex trafficking and child abuse:

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