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Sex Workers Built the Internet
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Introduction
Exploitation / Opportunity
Overview
1. A prehistory of theft
Mothers of the Internet
Earliest Digital Porn
2. Innovators move online
Early Empires
Independence and Control
Driving Adoption
Monetizing the Web
3. An industry takes shape
Webmasters Rush In
Designing the Web
Visibility / Connection
Overview
4. Access and independence
Expanding Access
Personal Narratives
5. URL/IRL collapse
Streaming Life
Forced Online
Always On
6. Organizing new networks
Tech for Communal Care
Sharing Resources
Activism and Organizing
Surveillance / Survival
Overview
7. Policing Cyberspace
Sex Work as Target
Digital Gentrification
FOSTA-SESTA and its aftermaths
Take Action
Resources
Contributors
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Desire built the internet
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Sex Workers Built
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