Online Safety Bill Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/online-safety-bill/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:28:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png Online Safety Bill Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/online-safety-bill/ 32 32 How the UK Online Safety Act is harming marginalized communities and setting a dangerous global precedent https://prostitutescollective.net/how-the-uk-online-safety-act-is-harming-marginalized-communities-and-setting-a-dangerous-global-precedent/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:23:33 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20125 By Repro Uncensored and the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP)The UK’s Online Safety Act is often described as a landmark effort to make the internet safer. Framed around protection, particularly of children, the law introduces sweeping duties for online platforms to identify and reduce the risk of harm on their services.But as the Act moves […]

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]]> Meta Is Deleting Queer and Sex Worker Accounts, and Our Communities Are Being Erased With Them https://prostitutescollective.net/meta-is-deleting-queer-and-sex-worker-accounts-and-our-communities-are-being-erased-with-them/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:14:50 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20088 By the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP)More than 45 queer and sex worker accounts have been removed across the UK, the Netherlands, and other countries in a coordinated wave of digital erasure. Meta is shutting down sex worker accounts, and the interconnected networks we belong to including queer collectives, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights […]

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]]> Independent: Sex workers could be pushed into illegal brothels and dangerous street work due to new laws, MPs warn https://prostitutescollective.net/independent-sex-workers-could-be-pushed-into-illegal-brothels-and-dangerous-street-work-due-to-new-laws-mps-warn/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 11:54:20 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17797 Exclusive: Sex worker says online safety bill has pushed her into working in a brothel where a pimp takes half her money, she has no rights and cannot check clients online to ensure they are safe Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent   New laws designed to make the internet safer could put sex workers’ lives at risk […]

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]]> Financial Times: The women turning to sex work to make ends meet https://prostitutescollective.net/financial-times-the-women-turning-to-sex-work-to-make-ends-meet%ef%bf%bc/ Sun, 11 Dec 2022 12:20:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17576 As the cost of living crisis spreads, more women are starting to sell sex and many are taking greater risks Alexandra Heal in Sheffield and Anna Gross in LondonTiffany smoothed her hair in the bathroom mirror and took off her wedding ring. Little knots were tightening in her stomach. The former civil servant climbed into the car next to […]

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]]> Action Alert: Online Safety Bill Part 2 https://prostitutescollective.net/action-alert-online-safety-bill-part-2/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:39:17 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17060 Thank you for writing to your MPs to call for the removal of Clause 16 (Schedule 7 – Priority Offences) of the Online Safety Bill. This clause is a dangerous attempt to criminalise sex workers’ online advertising. Our full briefing is here.Hundreds of letters have been sent, reaching 311 MPs – thank you to those […]

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]]> Refinery29: Banning Online Ads Will Make Sex Work More Dangerous https://prostitutescollective.net/refinery29-banning-online-ads-will-make-sex-work-more-dangerous/ Sun, 22 May 2022 12:27:33 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17003 SEVERIJA BIELSKYTEWhen the COVID lockdown hit in 2020, Audrey, a sex worker based in Bristol and campaigner for United Sex Workers, found that her client pool shrank dramatically. This put her livelihood at risk and Audrey found herself having to make choices that she didn’t feel completely comfortable with."What it meant was that [sex workers] had to see clients who […]

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]]> Action Alert: Please tell us how criminalising online adverts would affect you https://prostitutescollective.net/online-safety-bill-callout/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 12:21:45 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16322 Sex workers: Please tell us how the attempt to criminalise adverts in the Online Safety Bill would affect you. We’re collating responses! All will be kept anonymous. Drop us a DM on social media, or email direct ecp@prostitutescollective.net with the subject line ONLINE SAFETY BILL STATEMENT If you haven't done so already, please use our […]

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]]> Action Alert: Online Safety Bill – Criminalising sex workers’ online adverts would undermine safety! https://prostitutescollective.net/urgent-call-to-action-online-safety-bill/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:41:23 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16318 The post Action Alert: Online Safety Bill – Criminalising sex workers’ online adverts would undermine safety! appeared first on English Collective of Prostitutes.

]]> Independent: Violence against sex workers will surge under new Online Safety Bill, campaigners warn https://prostitutescollective.net/independent-violence-against-sex-workers-will-surge-under-new-online-safety-bill/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:46:07 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16298 Exclusive: ‘They will become street-based sex workers which means you have sex with men on the street, down alleys, or sometimes in cars,’ says campaigner Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent Violence against sex workers will rise under proposed measures outlined in the government’s new online safety bill, campaigners have warned. The legislation will stop sex workers from advertising their services […]

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]]> Briefing: Online Safety Bill – Criminalising sex workers’ online adverts will undermine safety https://prostitutescollective.net/briefing-online-safety-bill/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 15:30:31 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16248 Please click here to use our quick online tool and template letter to ask your MP to call for the removal of Clause 16 (Section 7 – Priority Offences) of the Online Safety Bill and urge them to speak out against this dangerous attempt to criminalise sex workers’ online advertising. Online Safety Bill: Criminalising sex […]

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