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>FOSTA has slaughtered many avenues of sourcing research chemicals

FOSTA was the "Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act," and the bill seemed solely focused on that topic. I'm also not seeing any other bill that would obviously lead to that happening, but I only looked at the titles.

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No you're right but what it lead to it was sites like Reddit closing down things like /r/darknetmarkets, and /r/rcsources which are both review and sourcing subreddits. It made other forums scared to touch the idea of sourcing because the act can be used against any illegal activity.

Here's the announcement of Reddit banning said subs along with many others: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/863xcj/new_a...

My guess is that if you have a place to illegally sell research chemicals online, that place could also be used to facilitate sex trafficking and will be used that way. So without explicitly targeting drug markets, FOSTA can still indirectly affect them as black markets in general.

Not generally an overlap there. As far as I'm aware there's no real one stop shop. Darknet markets have never had escort services to my knowledge.

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