From today's business section "City, state leaders join forces to end sex trade"
With the sex-for-hire trade increasingly shifting to the Internet, a Cambridge advocacy group brought together dozens of high-tech volunteers for a series of weekend workshops aimed at giving law enforcement new tools to combat human trafficking.
Tasked with developing software programs and apps for everything from monitoring John chat rooms, compiling Top 100 lists of prostitution customers and promoters and enabling police to record real-time arrest information on their cellphones, approximately 100 techies broke into nine teams at District Hall on the waterfront Saturday and yesterday as part of an initiative run by Cambridge-based Demand Abolition and sponsored by Attorney General Maura Healey and Mayor Martin J. Walsh.
To those vigilantes that the article refers to please know this. Those of us who use this website are consenting adults. We are not hurting anyone. So leave us alone and go look for trafficking where you might actually find it.
At least that's what your elected leaders say publicly:
“For those who are buying sex, I just want you to know, you are exploiting somebody’s mother, sister, daughter, brother. ... It’s as simple as that. We need to end the demand,” Healey said during a break in the event
Well, duh, providers have relatives, so treat them right. They have been saying that it's exploitationfor years, while they disregard and discredit anyone who knows the truth about it
At least that's what your elected leaders say publicly:
“For those who are buying sex, I just want you to know, you are exploiting somebody’s mother, sister, daughter, brother. ... It’s as simple as that. We need to end the demand,” Healey said during a break in the event.
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