Yes years ago paper adverts allowed adverts under massage and escort services and charged a lot more than other adverts but no mention of sex was allowed. What would the point be if the government passed this bill but still allowed Adultwork and Viva to operate but just not mentioning services then nothing has changed apart from us having even more timewasters than ever not only on the phone but in person.

If they are wanting to stop sex adverts online that starts with Adultwork and viva not having any adult section.

But “massage “ is massage

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I was thinking that if we are no longer allowed to display services and sexual info, I'd have a second work phone purely set up as a text response device.  They text that in the first instance and it auto replies services and rules, and a second number to call to actually book. Or maybe I'll do both from one number, I'll have to suck it and see what's best.

That way, I wouldn't spend ages fielding info requests.  Well, not as much anyway

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Can we get back on topic, please?

AW  only give a shit about themselves

I remember that case as well

The only thing I do know is that when the Sesta / Fosta laws came into place AW removed all the American escorts of the USA page ( not that there was a lot )
So they didn’t want to piss off the USA government

But there are similar laws in other countries with regards to advertising prostitution on line / profiting from it
I think France has it under the Nordic model but they have 1 advert in France and Northern Ireland is under the Nordic model so I assume they have similar laws about profiting from online advertising

I believe the SESTA/FOSTA makes it a federal crime to advertise prostitution and that's some pretty serious stuff that will land you in jail for a very long time, fact is since it was implemented the few American directories have been sold, emigrated their servers/staff/headquarters to other countries and are asking for all sorts of ID's when it comes to posting an ad. Backpage (which was a huge moneymaker) was removed by the Feds and no other directory has had the balls to take over, even craigslist removed their casual encounters and dating section! so consequences for facilitating online prostitution must be pretty harsh now. As per the European countries with nordic model (like France) directories are still operating and so far (that we know) no online directory has gotten on cahoots (touches wood). I believe (please someone correct me if I'm wrong) that Europe has a more "laissez faire" attitude because there's no SESTA/FOSTA laws, despite prostitution being semi-legal in some countries (nordic model) there's no specific laws that will land directory owners in jail (unlike the US), the worse that could happen to them is to have their directories removed.

Backpage?

Backpage had hundreds of lawsuits, some serious ones, there was even a parents of trafficked victims association that went to congress! There was also a very personal vendetta between the owners of Backpage and senator Mcain (the guy who pushed the SESTA/FOSTA law) stemming from the 80's when backpage didn't even existed. The removal of Backpage was a storm waiting to happen. I think was this experience taught us is that you can't have a directory selling prams, cars and apartments on one section and hookers (excuse my French) on another. Since them sex work online advertising has directories that are just for that (no traffic from "honourable" people -observe commas-), they all can be hidden with search filters etc... and hidden from public view. Basically you're sweeping prostitution under the rug "No see, no hear no talk". If OLB gets approved I see a similar approach.

3rd reading House of Lords 6th September 2023

According to the UK Parliament website a bill has 3 readings in House of Commons, 3 readings in House of Lords. Each house decides on 3rd reading whether to accept it. The first house then is asked to agree with amendments made by the second.

Once both houses agree the bill receives Royal Assent and becomes law.

I cannot find any further information or dates on the website.

Thank you