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Now is a terrifying time to be a sex worker in America. On Wednesday, the president signed into law a new bill – a combination of the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act and the House’s Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act – which amends Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency …

A federal grand jury in Arizona has indicted Backpage.com‘s founders, Michael Lacey and James Larkin, along with five of their employees, on 93 counts, Reuters reports. Knowingly facilitating prostitution, sex trafficking and money laundering are among the charges the classified-ads website is being accused of in the indictment. On Friday, …