https://www.mtracey.net/p/sex-trafficking-laws-are-out-of-control

I'm not going to put the entire article here because my phone gets weird when I try to copy the whole thing. Instead. Here's how it ends

If, after reading the series, you feel I have oversold the pitch, and have enticed you with a “false promise,” feel free to sue me for “trafficking” — you’ll probably win.

Edit: here is am archive https://archive.md/GQlYx

A screenshot of the title of a substack article. It says "Sex trafficking laws are out of control". The author  is Michael Tracey

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[–] 21 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Based on that quote, without reading it, I divine that his "point" is that lying to someone to get them to travel for sex isn't "reeeallly" trafficking.

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  • [–] [S] 29 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    That. But also: Trafficking isn't even a real crime, "sex trafficker" and especially "child sex traffickers" are political smears, and also prostitution and trafficking gets conflated so trafficking isn't that bad.

    Michael Tracey is a piece of work.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I cannot imagine what it must be like to sit down at a computer, type that out, and somehow think it's a valuable contribution to the world.

    Trying to think of a way to work nonce or paedophile into "Michael Tracey" and coming up blank

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    People helping refugees across the border are regularly called human traffickers.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's a whole lot of words to say that these sex trafficking laws are often used to go after sex workers and people soliciting sex workers.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Male chuds understand consent challenge, difficulty impossible.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Tracey advocating for the repeal of the Mann Act after watching Smokey and the Bandit

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm no expert, but I feel like you could say "This law doesn't actually go after the people it should, targeting innocent people instead." and you'd be fine, not doing...whatever this was. I don't often come away from an article with the feeling that the author has women tied up in their basement, but this is one of those times.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Michael Tracey is an Epstein truther, in the sense that he doesn't think the epstein files have proof of anything illegal in them and there's no proof he did any sex trafficking. He also routinely defends (other) pedophiles and sex abusers.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, and I'm sure his intention with this article was to try and make me think the opposite of that. But if I didn't think he was claiming "Epstein did nothing wrong" before reading this, I certainly think he does now. Which I'm guessing wasn't the point, but it's the only real takeaway I got from it.

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