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43 U. Mem. L. Rev. 1097 (2012-2013)
Abolishing Child Sex Trafficking on the Internet: Imposing Criminal Culpability on Digital Facilitators

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Abolishing Child Sex Trafficking on the
Internet: Imposing Criminal Culpability
on Digital Facilitators
RYAN DALTON*
I. Introduction       ............................   .....1098
II. HUMAN TRAFFICKING           ...............................1100
III. SEx TRAFFICKING AND THE INTERNET .................1107
IV. LEGAL CHALLENGES TO THE SECOND ABOLITION ...............1112
A. Facilitation of Child Sex Trafficking...  .......... 1113
B. Enacted State Law Addressing Alleged Facilitation by Adult
Services Websites......................1114
C. Federal Preemption and the Communications Decency
Act .................................. 1121
1. Section 1591.................       .................1121
2. The Communications Decency Act........      ......1123
3. The First Amendment and Protected Speech............1129
4. The Dormant Commerce Clause...        ....  .......1136
V. THE TWO-EDGED SWORD: LAW AND TECHNOLOGY............. 1140
VI. CONCLUSION        ................................ ......1 143
* Director, Anti-Trafficking Operations with Operation Broken Silence;
Law Fellow, Shared Hope International; J.D. Candidate 2013, University of
Memphis Cecil C. Humphrey's School of Law; B.A. in International Studies and
Philosophy, University of Memphis. I am grateful to the University of Memphis
Law Review for inviting me to author this paper and present it at the Law Re-
view's Symposium on human trafficking.

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