- danah boyd | apophenia ยป How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers, and Other Abusive Scumbags
Again, relevant to the interests of a number of parties I know, I imagine. Absolutely excellent argument for why the censorship of Craigslist is *not* a good thing, and will not help in the fight against sex trafficking and exploitation of women.
- TUNED UP! PHONE CASE & STAND
I may be developing an addiction to iphone cases. But tell me this isn't awesome. You can't can you?
- Dave Gorman: Google Him
Dave Gorman demonstrates remarkable sanity, as per. In fact, here's a quote that basically runs my entire life: "Either way, there's no value in wasting energy in getting upset. The next thing is always more exciting than the past."
Tag: trafficking
Bookmarks for October 21, 2009
- Sex trafficking is no illusion | Rahila Gupta | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
I was slighly horrified to read Nick Davies (a journalist I normally have a lot of respect for, and consider his book Dark Heart to be mandatory reading) article in the Graudiad yesterday, which contained the elemetary error that just because a six month operation had failed to successfully prosecute anyone for sex trafficking in the UK, the problem wasn't that bad. Here is an excellent rebuttal to that piece, also from the Grauniad (which itself contains a link to Mr Davies original piece at the top, which is why I haven't linked it here.)