Sexual exploitation isn't a right.

To combat forcing women and children into sexual slavery, Congress passed a bill aimed at stopping the advertisement of the prostitution of these sexual exploited people.

This has elitists upset.

Oh gosh, you know how much that upsets me.

Between Backpage & Craigslist-personals shutting down, there is no obvious, low-barrier-to-entry, high-return(ish) place for people to advertise sex work & that is especially bad for the most vulnerable communities, including sex trafficking victims

— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) April 6, 2018

It upsets me not at all. We have the most incompetent elitists in the world.

Lawfare weighed in. The bill's acronym is FOSTA.

"FOSTA (known in a previous form as SESTA, or the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) amends Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides tech companies immunity from most liability for publishing third-party content. Currently, only federal criminal law, intellectual property laws, and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act fall outside the immunity provision," Lawfare said.

Not holding publishers accountable for "third-party content" -- usually advertising -- is rather iffy to me, especially as many publications reject ads. That action should make them responsible for all ads they accept.

"For the first time in twenty years, FOSTA carves out an additional statutory exception for that immunity. The idea is that online platforms should face the same liability for enabling illegal sex-trafficking, as offline outlets do," Lawfare said.

So we allowed on the Internet what we did not allow elsewhere. And Craigslist and others made lots of money. Ending that billion-dollar favor caused them to shut down the ability to advertise child prostitution.

The argument against FOSTA is that without a place to advertise, prostitutes will be in danger.

Meanwhile, the federal government finally shut down Backpage using old laws.

"Federal authorities have taken down Backpage.com, a major classified advertising website that has been repeatedly accused of enabling prostitution and sex trafficking of minors," the New York Times said.

The president the pussyhats hate is actually doing what the Fake Feminist president refused to do. Trump is fighting the exploitation of women and children. Making it impossible to advertise the peddling of flesh does more for women than anything NOW has done.

"Backpage has been under increasing pressure in recent years, in part because it featured ads that included what child advocates said were code words for underage girls, including Amber Alert," the Times said.

The exploitation of women and children was quite lucrative.

"Revenue at Backpage increased to $135 million in 2014 from $5.3 million in 2008, according to a Senate report last year. More than 90 percent of the earnings came from adult ads, the California Department of Justice found," the Times said.

The Washington Free Beacon reported why Obama was reluctant to go after this web site.

"Jim Larkin, a former co-owner of Backpage, gave a $5,400 contribution on July 26, 2016, to the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising effort between the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and more than 30 state Democratic parties. The money was then transferred to Hillary for America, Clinton's campaign committee," the Free Beacon reported on October 1.

"The campaign appears to have not returned the money to Larkin, a search of Federal Election Commission records shows."

The way to end sex exploitation is to end demand. A civilized society should have outgrown prostitution by now.