Not Really News

Bored, so I caught up a bit on my Google Alerts. Since I was searching through my pile for specific terms, I came up witha random selection.

People are circumventing the new CL ad restrictions by advertising for different items. It's amusing, but waiting for the new censorship on selling anything to do with women.

Kansas City discovers the Intertubes and that cyber sex work exists! In 2009. Geez, weren't they aware of CraigsList, like, last year? The KCPD also seem stunned that wholesale arrests aren't solving the financial/social/legal problems sex workers have.

These are just two stories that caught my eye. Otherwise, there have been lots and lots of arrests (most off CraigsList), trials on charges of soliciting or trafficking or running a "ring", politicans getting in hot water, lots of arrests, ill-mannered blog posts by people who openly state "I've never [been a sex worker] or know anyone who has BUT...", a few more arrests, trafficking hysteria (with very few actual victims) and quite possibly some violence but I haven't dug down enough to find it.

In other words, though I haven't been seriously following my Google Alerts for about a year, nothing has changed.