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1/2 🇸🇪 Today, the Swedish Parliament is voting on a dangerous bill that expands the scope of sx work criminalisation to online platforms and third-parties facilitating sx work 🚨

Not only will this make sx workers less safe by pushing them into more dangerous environments, it also massively effects their .

Together, European Sex Workers Rights' Alliance and Red Umbrella Sweden are calling on the Swedish Parliament to reject this misguided proposal ➡️ eswalliance.org/open_letter_sw

European Sex Workers' Rights AllianceStatement: Sweden Must Reject the Expansion of Sex Work Criminalisation: Protect Rights, Not Repression
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2/2 The impact on :

📱 legitimising invasive measures by police such as unlawfully seizing phones and other devices

🕵 increased police of online communications, financial transactions & other activities

🙅 creating a chilling effect on adult content platforms, and over-censorship of Swedish adult content creators and sx workers

❌ The impact of this law will fuel global platform & policing of sexual expression, disguised as “protection”/anti-trafficking.