The National Center on Sexual Exploitation alerted Instacart to COVID-19 trends where pimps and sex traffickers have been coercing victims to enter the gig economy and to hand any profits they make to their exploiters. Instacart heard our concerns and moved to address potential abuse and trafficking that its workers may be experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Much the same way that the pornography industry boomed after the U.S. Department of Justice ceased enforcement of obscenity law, The Erotic Review (TER) perceived that the U.S. government had little appetite to enforce FOSTA-SESTA and decided it was “safe” to resume its exploitative work.
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