Please. You can't even decide what your beef with Pounced.org is. "People were upset at Pounced because trolls were admins" is nowhere approaching "Pounced admins should be in jail for child sex trafficking", especially when the reason for the latter is, "they asked for proof when I told them they were guilty of it", and you think their involvement in sex trafficking is a smaller problem than, er, people using it for things other than romantic endeavors.
Regardless of whether anyone "cared" (lol) about the website, the bill (now a law) is, yes, harmful, and is, yes, repressive. Maybe you could take a look into what sex workers have said about it for themselves - a quick Google search would help.
As for how it can harm the community, well, let's just negate your personal, heart-rending rage at this particular website, and go into scenarios you might be able to see a little clearer:
People sell sex at furry conventions. Even in cases where it isn't sold, furries use the Internet to plan and coordinate sexual encounters at furry conventions, and since attending a convention costs money, it could be interpreted that way legally. Do you see the problem that puts websites in? The fact no actual trafficking is involved doesn't matter; any facilitation of sex work can already get you in trouble for "trafficking", like driving your consenting wife to a motel.
Please. You can't even decide what your beef with Pounced.org is. "People were upset at Pounced because trolls were admins" is nowhere approaching "Pounced admins should be in jail for child sex trafficking", especially when the reason for the latter is, "they asked for proof when I told them they were guilty of it", and you think their involvement in sex trafficking is a smaller problem than, er, people using it for things other than romantic endeavors.
Regardless of whether anyone "cared" (lol) about the website, the bill (now a law) is, yes, harmful, and is, yes, repressive. Maybe you could take a look into what sex workers have said about it for themselves - a quick Google search would help.
As for how it can harm the community, well, let's just negate your personal, heart-rending rage at this particular website, and go into scenarios you might be able to see a little clearer:
People sell sex at furry conventions. Even in cases where it isn't sold, furries use the Internet to plan and coordinate sexual encounters at furry conventions, and since attending a convention costs money, it could be interpreted that way legally. Do you see the problem that puts websites in? The fact no actual trafficking is involved doesn't matter; any facilitation of sex work can already get you in trouble for "trafficking", like driving your consenting wife to a motel.